Individuals, teams and faculty leaders can all help to set Academia in Motion.

As a leader of a faculty, you can:

• Stimulate institutes and departments to formulate strategic goals
• Invest in leadership, and develop transparent processes for hiring and promotion

As a team, you can:

• Identify shared strategic goals and recognise and reward team members in accordance with these goals 
• Make societal engagement and relevance an integral part of research evaluations

As an individual, you can:

• Adopt open science practices and put quality over quantity 
• Share your insights and experiences, and become a change ambassador 

Good practices & inspiration

Want to get started yourself? Connecting with your faculty's Academia in Motion team, if you haven't done so already, is a great first step.

In addition, be inspired by these examples of good practices.

1. Post a preprint. 
2. Join the Open Science Community Leiden.
3. Participate in open, transparent peer review free that is free to all.
4. Choose an open license for your data, research output and teaching materials.
5. Encourage your team to take a fresh look at hiring practices. 
6. Bring your academic results and insights to a global audience. 
7. Get started with GROW.
8. Reflect on your leadership skills.
9. Follow the Leiden Madtrics blog.

These are, of course, just a few ideas. Do you have a good practice to share? Email us!

Expert groups

You can also reach out to various groups for insights and support on topics related to Academia in Motion. For example:

• Centre for Digital Scholarship. Part of Leiden University Libraries, the CDS offers open publication advice, data management training and more.
• Centre for Science and Technology Studies. Expertise on research assessment and strategic decision making and for developing science policy.
• Citizen Science Lab. Expertise on the connections between research and society, and help for when you want to involve the public in your research.
• Young Academy Leiden. A way to connect with early-career academics at Leiden University on topics including interdisciplinarity, science and education policy.