Josep Perelló: “If we want science to transform society, we must have the public with us”



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## Josep Perelló: “If we want science to transform society, we must have the public with us”

17/10/2023 |
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“Research must accommodate the aspects that are important for the public,” said the researcher Josep Perelló, from the University of Barcelona, who went on to say, “If we want science to transform society, we must have the public with us.” Perelló was speaking in the first lecture of the Annual Conference on Research Ethics, Publications, Open Science and the Future of Scientific Evaluation in Spain, organised by the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló.

During his talk, “The Future and the Possibilities of Citizen Science”, Perelló explained that citizen science currently lacks a solid structure because projects based on this principle are being incorporated in universities and research centres piecemeal. “It is not a present reality,” he commented, “but it is growing and we are moving towards this kind of research.”

In his opinion, the climate that has led to the rise of this kind of project in universities is linked to a perceptible decline in innovation, trends demanding greater representativeness and accessibility of results, the need to integrate different perspectives in research – for example, the participation of cancer patients in new treatments – and to prioritise efforts.

The researcher from the University of Barcelona pointed out that citizen science is currently trying to strike a balance between the benefits of applying collective effort  and intelligence in certain projects and the demand to respond to public needs. These considerations mark the research agenda. Perelló believes that there are increasing demands on researchers for their work to have a direct impact, and that Europe is already asking us to “resolve specific issues affecting the public”.

The fourth Annual Conference on Research Ethics, Publications, Open Science and the Future of Scientific Evaluation in Spain is organised by the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, the Chair in Public Transparency, the Doctoral School, the Research Ethics Committee (CEI) and the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research. It has the support of the Valencian regional government.

The three sessions completing the conference will take place next week. On 2 October, researchers Emilio Delgado-López and Alberto Martín, from the Universidad de Granada, will talk about anomalous patterns in academic publications; on 3 October, researcher Eva Méndez, from the Carlos III University in Madrid, will address the issue of scientific evaluation; and, finally, on 4 October, Pilar Rico, head of the Open Access, Repositories and Journals Unit of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) will offer her point of view on the future of open access.

The sessions can be followed live via Zoom or viewed later. More information: <https://www.uji.es/centres/fchs/noticies/2023/>

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