PIPSC Science Advisory Committee
PIPSC HQ Office, Ottawa and by Zoom
24 October 2022
Invited: Waheed Khan (Chair), Simon Zhou, Joseph Paquette, Sung Joon Kim, Georgine Pastershank, Joanne Papineau, Babak Shalchi Amirkhiz, Jacqueline Montalibet, Nadia Leon-Alexis, Kimberley Keats, Marielle Nadon (staff support), Julie Poon (staff support).
09:00 Hrs. Call to order (Waheed)
Approval of Agenda
The agenda is approved by all
Approval of previous meeting minutes
Action items:
- Julie to develop a report template for our website and the Board on Strategic and Operational Plan (quarterly report). ONGOING
- Eleanor/Julie to search some data on members and how long they have been stuck in the same position.
- Waheed to send out an email to every science member and give updates on Strategic and Operational Plan.
- Sadi to double check that the email invitation for Pride: Celebrating diversity in Public Sector Science webinar on 25th August 2022 has been sent out.
- Sadi to contact Calgary and Quebec region in fall because she received a lot of out of office email.
- Erika to submit new logos to Eleanor/Julie for approval
- Marielle to send previous minutes in translation and post on the website. ONGOING
PIPSC & Board Updates (Waheed)
Waheed presented to the Board in September 2022
Extending the mandate of members of the Committee to 3 years didn’t work out as it needs a motion to the AGM.
Returning to the workplace raised a lot of issues regarding health safety.
10:30 Health Break
Implementation of the Strategic and Operational Plan EN and FR (Waheed/Julie)
Vision
- Continue internal and external monitoring activities and support for members on SI
- Strengthen members’ understanding of SI, their rights, and mechanisms available to address SI issues
- Develop and strengthen relationships with external partners with shared interests, to promote public science for public good.
- Support the career development of PIPSC women in science (WiS)
- Support career development of scientists, especially for equity-deserving groups, and members without a career path and/or stagnating at their pay scales.
- Enhance government decision-makers’ understanding and support of the need for increased science capacity and funding.
Actions
- Provide training to PIPSC Consultation Teams and stewards and increase awareness about Scientific Integrity Policy (SIP).
- Continue organizing SI Focal Points group meetings and participate in Interdepartmental
- Working Group (IDWG) on SI meetings.
- Support members on SI-related grievances and discipline; SI breaches; and SI departmental policy/guidelines development.
- Develop, launch, and analyze a fourth iteration of PIPSC’s Science Member Survey.
- Identify science organizations and explore possible collaborations.
- Identify WiS ally groups and explore possible collaboration.
- Host events and Learning Lab(s) specifically geared towards member-identified needs for WiS and create networking opportunities.
- Research career stagnation, and barriers for PIPSC scientists and researchers, to build a case based on evidence.
- Create a fact sheet on the current status of employment equity gap(s) for WiS, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.
- Develop and execute advocacy and lobbying for increased federal science funding for Public Science for Public Good.
- Research and publicize issues of science capacity such as sustained intramural funding per capita, funding growth proportional to public service growth, etc.
We had good feedback from participants.
2 EN and 1 FR sessions have been given.
Waheed and Julie would like to hold another FR and another EN session in spring.
Johanne suggests to provide SI policy in the breakout room in the future.
Members didn’t participate in Science events as mentioned in the plan because of budget issues. We are hoping to do so next year.
- Launching the Public Science 4 Public Good campaign (All)
Swag suggested for the new logo: T-shirt/vest, pop up banner, frame for picture and pens.
We already have a pop up banner and stickers for SI.
12:00 Lunch break
Preparations for the November meeting in Montreal (All)
- Agenda items
It will be a full day meeting but not to expect a heavy agenda, because of other meetings
- Science Kiosk
SI pop up banner already being created.
2:30 Health break
Women in Science Update (Sadi Pokharel)
NSERC Chair for Women in Science & Engineering from Atlantic, BC/Yukon had accepted to collaborate with us.
Op-ed Writing Workshop is in the selection process
Women in Science Cafe Serie to start next year
Other updates/roundtable/next meeting
Georgine mentioned the process is a bit hard to apply to be part of a committee and it may be hard for new members to do so.
Georgine mentioned that accessing data and sharing it can be an issue.
Johanne suggested inviting someone that lives with SI issue to better explain the current situation into a next meeting.
Adjournment
Action Items:
1.Julie to identify how many Engineers have participated in the SI training session for Sung Joon.
2. Agreed to order a shirt or vest with a logo.
3. Everyone to send their suggestions (if any) for the agenda.
4. Waheed to follow up with David regarding his PIPSC email address and application to be a SAC member for next year.
5. Waheed to look into creating a white board for the SAC members.