Together Alone: Going Online during COVID-19 Is Changing Scientific Conferences

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dc.contributor.authorBray, H.J.
dc.contributor.authorStone, J.
dc.contributor.authorLitchfield, L.
dc.contributor.authorBritt, K.L.
dc.contributor.authorHopper, J.L.
dc.contributor.authorIngman, W.V.
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionPublished: 19 February 2022
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic caused many scientific conferences to move online, posing a great challenge for scientific communication. This change offers potential advantages and disadvantages for inclusion, diversity, and scientific advancement. Here, we analyse participants’ experiences of the Why Study Mammographic Density? Conference to explore some of these issues and identify key points of contention between different stakeholders. We found that while increasing participant diversity is facilitated by online conferencing, if the participants cannot interact informally with each other, there is value which is lost. In returning to in-person conferences, it will be important not to “shut the door” on those whose participation was enabled by the online format.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityHeather J. Bray, Jennifer Stone, Lillith Litchfield, Kara L. Britt, John L. Hopper and Wendy V. Ingman
dc.identifier.citationChallenges, 2022; 13(1):7-1-7-13
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/challe13010007
dc.identifier.issn2078-1547
dc.identifier.issn2078-1547
dc.identifier.orcidIngman, W.V. [0000-0003-3116-2902]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/134782
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.rightsCopyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/challe13010007
dc.subjectCOVID-19; conference; online; networking; diversity; scientific advancement
dc.titleTogether Alone: Going Online during COVID-19 Is Changing Scientific Conferences
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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