In a few short years various key research-funding countries and regions around the world have implemented stringent and consequential requirements around working with high-risk organisations. Huge lists of institutions and entities maintained by the EU, Australia, Canada and the USA now fall under sanctions or require careful review and vetting when it comes to sensitive or military-adjacent technologies, or scholarship placements. Not to heed these requirements risks major financial penalties, reputational damage and potential national security breaches.
Dimensions Research Security allows for broad monitoring and evaluation of your institution’s risk profile. In this webinar you will find out how to track the exposure your research has to foreign talent recruitment funding programs, how you can quickly discover backing from undisclosed funders, as well as how to run simple but comprehensive due diligence vetting on a researcher’s full body of work and their common collaborators, funders, topics and their multiple (and sometimes parallel) affiliations with high risk dual military and civil organisations globally.
Speakers
Heidi Becker is the Product Manager for Dimensions Research Security. Since 2019, Heidi has worked closely with both academic and government partners on how to best leverage Dimensions for research security. She spearheaded the development of the Dimensions Research Security dashboard, which is now used by both government agencies and academic institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and Australia. She came to Digital Science with a background in planning and evaluation for a major private science funder, in addition to many years in state government.
Ben McLeish is Sales Manager for Altmetric and Dimensions and has been at Digital Science since 2014. He specialises in analysis of research security risk and foreign interference, research impact and knowledge transfer and mobilisation. He has previously worked at Wiley, ProQuest and the American Chemical Society, as well as in media monitoring services.