Participation and Impact Survey

  • You are invited to participate in this Bio-IT survey if you have either previously attended or plan to attend any Bio-IT training/learning activities.
  • Bio-IT (https://bio-it.embl.de/) is a community initiative, which aims to build, support, and promote computational biology activity at EMBL.
  • It will take 3-5 minutes to complete this survey. 
  • We will run this survey until February 25, 2019. You can edit your response anytime before that.
  • This survey is designed to be anonymous. Complete privacy will be maintained and no identifiable information will be shared with anyone.
  • Your response will be used in developing Bio-IT community engagement strategies.
  • For any additional information, please contact the coordinators of the Bio-IT project by emailing 'bio-it@embl.de'.

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* 1. What role(s) do you play in the Bio-IT community?

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* 2. How often do you apply computational skills to your project work?

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* 3. Which of the following Bio-IT training events have you attended or plan to attend?

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* 4. How important were/are these courses in contributing to your ability to carry out computational work?

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* 5. Has Bio-IT training had a direct impact on any of your published scientific work? (E.g. increased quality of published work, enabled you to perform additional analyses for published work, increased speed/efficiency of analyses in project.)

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* 6. Would you like to increase computational activities in your work?

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* 7. If your response to the previous question is 'yes', can you specify which of the following support(s) will allow you to do that?

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* 8. Which EMBL unit(s)/group(s) are you a member of?

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* 9. Gender:

Note: Response to this question will allow us to evaluate our outreach efforts and develop equity strategies to provide fair opportunities for everyone.

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* 10. Do you belong to one or more historically underrepresented groups in STEM? (for e.g. people of color, member of LGBTQ+ community, woman in STEM etc.) 

Note: Response to this question will allow us to evaluate our outreach efforts and develop equity strategies to provide fair opportunities for everyone.

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* 11. How can we (Bio-IT coordinators) encourage you to participate further in the Bio-IT community? Are there any new activities that you'd get involved in if we introduced them?

(e.g. publish your blog posts, share learning resources, help develop a specific lesson, organize a specific training or social event related to bioinformatics, invite you to speak at informal seminars etc.)

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* 12. Please share your email address if you would like to get involved in any of the Bio-IT activities mentioned in the questions and answers above.

Note: You can send us a separate email at 'bio-it@embl.de' if you prefer to keep your response completely anonymous.

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* 13. Is there anything else you would like us to know?

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