<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I'd ask that <b>the rights and needs of non-tenured academics are considered by the tenured before any response to the issue of collaboration is formulated further.</b><br><div>
<br></div><div><div>I'm deeply troubled by notions such as:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;line-height:18px">"If I employ someone as an RA, it's not a collaboration since I am basically exploiting them and thus 'own' the research."</span></div>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div>I think this willingness to see the employer-RA relationship as exploitative and to dismiss the potential for RAs to be co-authors of work they collaborate on suggests an initial conversation is required regarding the position of casual academics hired to support tenured academics' research activity in the question of collaboration.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm afraid I'm not in a position to contribute to further debate on this but wanted to put the above forward from the perspective of a long-term casually-employed academic who remains a scholar in their own right and expects to be both paid for their work and to be treated as a collaborator when they have contributed conceptually and technically to the production of a published work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sincerely, Ann Deslandes.</div></div></div></div>