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Dear colleagues,
stsing e.V. is an association ("Verein") doing Science and Technology
Studies (STS) in and through Germany, established in 2020. One of stsing's
working groups is the 'Best Practices' group which is trying to develop
practices that nurture 'good relations' within complex academic networks. We
have been watching the developments related to #MeTooSTS/ #WeDoSTS closely
and stsing has recently published a statement in response:
https://stsing.org/abuses-of-power-metoosts-and-how-wedosts
To continue this conversation in Germany and make use of existing
infrastructures and expertise, we are collaborating with the Network against
Power Abuse in Science (
https://www.netzwerk-mawi.de/en/). The Network has long-standing commitment
to publishing accounts of power abuse on their website as well as supporting
the people who approach them with these reports. To this end, the Network
has a portal which allows you to anonymously submit accounts of power abuse
that you may have witnessed or experienced. If necessary, members of the
network might slightly edit the account before publishing it to ensure that
nobody can be identified in it. You can see examples of cases published on
their website here:
https://www.netzwerk-mawi.de/en/case-examples.
The Best Practices group believes that the question of how #WeDoSTS in
Germany requires an understanding of how power abuse is facilitated and
allowed to play out. Testimonies in this sense are evidence and deserve to
be studied as such in order to find practical solutions and strategies. We
encourage you to submit your experiences, even if you are unsure if your
account fits the 'traditional' definitions of abuse - whatever they might
be. Our focus is not only on sexual harassment and extends to different
forms of power abuse and discrimination - including those that might be
perceived as a challenge to traditional definitions. Down the line, the Best
Practices group plans to produce a report on the landscape of #MeTooSTS and
#WeDoSTS in Germany based on the stories that we receive via the Network.
You can submit here:
https://www.netzwerk-mawi.de/en/case-examples/case-documentation
When you submit, please note the following guidelines:
1. When relevant, please include #STS at the top of your submission.
2. Indicate whether the hashtag should be included if the anonymized account
is published on the Netzwerk-Website or not. Even if not included in the
published version - by the Network or in the report of Best Practices - the
hashtag is still relevant for the creation of an internal body of
testimonies from German STS networks and for summarizing our findings.
3. Indicate whether your account can be shared with Best Practices by either
stating 'I submit to the Network and Best Practices' OR 'I submit only to
the Network'.
4. The Network requires submissions to be anonymized as much as possible.
Names may be revealed internally but will not be published online.
5. Re-living an incident by sharing it is often really difficult, especially
when the incident is still in progress. We urge you to seek further support
by availing the Network's 'Beratungsangebot' or consultation offer via
email:
https://www.netzwerk-mawi.de/kontakt. More information on the support they
offer is available in this document (German only):
https://www.netzwerk-mawi.de/fileadmin/media/Beratungshandreichung_Netzwerk_
gegen_Machtmissbrauch_in_der_Wissenschaft.pdf
At the moment, the anonymous reports are being received and stored
confidentially by members of the Best Practices group - Baldeep Kaur
(grewal[at]uni-potsdam.de), Milena Bister (milena.bister[at]univie.ac.at)
and Anja Klein (anja.klein[at]hu-berlin.de) for the next 6 months (until
including August 2023). Our employers have no stake or role in the work we
do within Best Practices. After six months, this collaboration will undergo
a review after which it might be handled by a different group of people.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Warmly,
Baldeep, Milena and Anja for Best Practices
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