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Supporting researcher resilience in emotionally demanding research work: building and sustaining an international community of practice

2025· article· en· W4409136071 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Gender-Based Violence · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicResilience and Mental Health
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsResilience (materials science)Work (physics)PsychologyCommunity resilienceApplied psychologyEngineering ethicsSociologyPublic relationsPolitical scienceEngineering

Abstract

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Researching emotionally demanding topics, like gender-based violence, can have potential personal impacts, including poor mental health and vicarious trauma. Researchers need support when working on such topics. The purpose of this article is to describe how an international Community of Practice (CoP) for researchers exploring sensitive topics was established to support resilience building practices. The Researcher Resilience Community of Practice (RRCoP) was initiated by three leaders from international universities with a shared interest in researcher resilience and wellbeing. Virtual meetings, held every other month, centre on relationship building, developing resilience skills, and connecting with researchers in the field of supporting graduate student wellbeing. The RRCoP is open to anyone involved in research and provides a space for emotional debriefing, promoting a sense of belonging, understanding, and reduced isolation among members. Workshops and presentations contribute to members’ personal resources for resilience/wellbeing. Meanwhile, working groups within the RRCoP actively pursue tangible changes in the field of supporting researcher wellbeing. This article presents member reflections on personal impact of CoP engagement and recommendations for future growth. The RRCoP continues to foster researcher resilience and wellbeing in sensitive research. This peer support network serves an important role in mitigating negative impacts of research work.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.132
Threshold uncertainty score0.658

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.160
GPT teacher head0.565
Teacher spread0.405 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it