An emergency helpline and online resource is now available to researchers in the Netherlands.
Many researchers are steering clear of radio discussions and talk shows to avoid the risk of subsequent abuse online.Willemijn Lamet is a criminologist and psychologist who advises on security policy at Universities of the Netherlands , an association that represents 14 Dutch universities. Here, she explains the rationale behind SafeScience, an online platform that supports scientists who face threats or intimidation.I advise on how UNL can help to make universities a safer place to work in.
After the pandemic was declared in March 2020, the threats online became more intimidating and more common — especially for COVID-19 researchers, but also for those in other fields. In my first week, another researcher was threatened. She received hateful and threatening comments on Twitter. For her, it was just ‘what happens’, basically, but it was an extra reason to work on guidelines.I spoke to Afshin Ellian, a specialist in jurisprudence at Leiden University who is an Iranian–Dutch academic, philosopher, poet, columnist and critic of political Islam.
So, I and my UNL colleague Tycho Wassenaar started working on the SafeScience project. Tycho had previously been responsible for coordinating activities and projects relating to teacher-training programmes and academic-teaching policy, but from summer 2022 he devoted himself to our project.
All universities have experience with various kinds of threat. But luckily, most institutions will have no experience with the very serious type that involves realistic threats to physical safety. Such threats are rare, but if they do occur, it’s possible to learn from other institutions that have been in the same situation. It helps that all universities and research institutions are aware that they need to have a policy in place to support their employees.
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