TY - GEN
T1 - Demographic landscape of the KAGRA collaboration
AU - Kokeyama, Keiko
AU - Kim, Chunglee
AU - Fedrow, Joseph M.
AU - Shoda, Ayaka
N1 - Funding Information:
KAGRA is a large-scale experimental project in physics and astronomy, to build a Gravitational-wave (GW) Telescope and to start GW astrophysics. The project started in 2010, funded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. Whereas the funding is from Japan, it is a large international collaboration with 110 institutions, from more than 10 countries, with more than 360 members, as of June 2019. In Japan, there is the unbalance of the gender in the physics field, in which the ratio of female is typically 10%. In addition, since the project and funding are originated in Japan, there are large varieties of the collaborators.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by MEXT, JSPS Leading-edge Research Infrastructure Program, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research 26000005, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 2905: 17H06358, 17H06361 and 17H06364, JSPS Core-to-Core Program A. Advanced Research Networks, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) 17H06133, the joint research program of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, National Research Foundation (NRF) and Computing Infrastructure Project of KISTI-GSDC in Korea, the LIGO project, and the Virgo project.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/2/5
Y1 - 2021/2/5
N2 - The KAGRA collaboration is a scientific organization for the gravitational-wave (GW) detections and GW astrophysics. It consists of more than 360 members from 14 different countries as of June 2019. Regardless the host institutions are the university of Tokyo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and KEK which are all in Japan, and regardless the experimental site is in Japan, there are many international members. However, in the collaboration, women and non-Japanese collaborators are still minorities. To accelerate the scientific efficiency, making a comfortable work environment for any members is a key. As a first step, we conducted an online demographic survey. In this article, the result of the survey and our efforts to make better collaboration will be shown.
AB - The KAGRA collaboration is a scientific organization for the gravitational-wave (GW) detections and GW astrophysics. It consists of more than 360 members from 14 different countries as of June 2019. Regardless the host institutions are the university of Tokyo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and KEK which are all in Japan, and regardless the experimental site is in Japan, there are many international members. However, in the collaboration, women and non-Japanese collaborators are still minorities. To accelerate the scientific efficiency, making a comfortable work environment for any members is a key. As a first step, we conducted an online demographic survey. In this article, the result of the survey and our efforts to make better collaboration will be shown.
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U2 - 10.1063/5.0036998
DO - 10.1063/5.0036998
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85101023091
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - Proceedings of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference
A2 - Tou, Teck-Yong
A2 - Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
A2 - Shukor, Roslan Abdul
A2 - Tanaka, Kazuhiro
A2 - Choi, Hyoung Joon
A2 - Matsumoto, Ryoji
A2 - Chin, Oi-Hoong
A2 - Chin, Jia Hou
A2 - Ratnavelu, Kuru
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, APPC 2019
Y2 - 17 November 2019 through 22 November 2019
ER -