Research and learning
Index methods cell
Researches and tests the methods of a domain index and proposes corrections with evidence.
- Joining
- By request
- Decides by
- Consent (sociocratic objection rounds)
- To form
- 3 members
- Visibility
- Listed in public once active
What it is for
Works on a defined research question and produces methods, models, papers and datasets with open outputs and a recorded review.
Who it draws on
Expertise
- Risk governance and institutions
- Multi-hazard and compound risk assessment
- Foresight and futures
- Climate science, variability and change
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- Systems science and complex systems
- Data science and statistics
- Economics and finance
- Sociology and demography
- Geoscience and seismology
- Epidemiology
- Mathematics and applied mathematics
How it is run
| Role | Into eyenzayo | At least |
|---|---|---|
| Lead | Convenes the cell, holds its mandate from the host and speaks for it. | 1 |
| Secretary | Keeps the records: minutes, decisions, the member list and the cell log. | 1 |
| Data steward | Looks after the cell's data: licences, quality, access and retention. | 1 |
| Ethics contact | Checks that work with people, their data or communities has the approvals it needs. | 0 |
- Decisions
- Consent (sociocratic objection rounds). Adopted when nobody has a reasoned, unresolved objection.
- Safeguards
- Conflict-of-interest recusal. People with a declared interest step out of the decision.
How to join
By request. People ask to join with their relevant expertise and a short motivation; the cell's admins approve or decline.
What a new cell starts with
Projects
- Research plan and question
- Evidence and literature review
- Open dataset and method note
First issues
- Agree authorship and credit
- Write the data management plan
- Check the ethics approvals needed
Open calls
- Co-authors and reviewers
What it connects to
- Idatha
- Publish and share datasets with licences, quality flags and access rules.
- Review hub
- Request peer review of outputs, and review the work of others.
- Uguqulelo
- Translate the cell's pages, documents and guides with reviewed translations.
- Learning
- Courses, cohorts and the learning path for each role.
Projects it often runs
- Risk assessment. Assess hazards, exposure and vulnerability for a place or system.
- Open data release. Publish a dataset with a licence, quality flags and documentation.
- Research study. Answer a defined research question with methods and open outputs.
- Policy brief. Prepare an evidence brief or consultation response, labelled as advice.
- Readiness evidence. Prepare evidence for finance readiness, never a rating or advice.
- Community survey. Ask the people affected what they face and need, with consent recorded.
Agreements it signs
- Cell charter (required). The mission, scope, host, roles, governance model and how the cell closes.
- Membership agreement (required). What members commit to, how they join and leave, and how credit is recorded.
- Intellectual property and open licence (required). Who owns the outputs and the open licence they are published under.
- Code of conduct and safeguarding (required). How members treat each other, how concerns are raised, and who acts on them.