Barcelona Summer School on Higher Education Policy and Management
Training Professionals to Lead Innovative Institutions
Ismael Ràfols
Senior Researcher at the Centre for Science and Tech Studies, Leiden University, UNESCO Chair in Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science.
Ismael Rafols is a senior researcher at CWTS and UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science. He works on science policy developing novel evaluation and monitoring approaches to help in fostering epistemic pluralism, broadening participation, and widening the distribution of the benefits from science. He is interested in funding portfolios and priority setting for societal challenges, and issues related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in health and agriculture.
Ismael has been involved in policy initiatives ‘responsible metrics’, such as the implementation of UNESCO’s Open Science Recommendations, the Leiden Manifesto, and on biases against research topics from the Global South in assessment and databases. Before CWTS, he worked at SPRU (Sussex) (2005-12) and Ingenio (CSIC-UPV) (2012-19). In between academic positions, he has worked on international cooperation in Oxfam and the City Council of Barcelona.
