The Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund awards Associate Professor Casimir Beng and Dr Renke Sabel a grant to formalise custodianship of the Adaptive Metrics Lab's reference calibration weights, including a signed handover log and an annual drift check.
A new Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund grant gives the Adaptive Metrics Lab's reference calibration weights a documented custodian, and a named successor, before the current one leaves
A reference calibration weight is only as reliable as the person who last checked it against a certified standard, and, more often than the Adaptive Metrics Lab would like to admit, that person has since moved on without saying who is checking it now. The School of Continuous Improvement has awarded an Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund grant to close that gap.
The grant funds a formal custodianship protocol for the Lab’s reference calibration weights: a signed transfer log recording every handover, an annual drift check against a certified external standard, and, the part earlier informal arrangements kept skipping, a named successor identified while the outgoing custodian is still around to brief them.
Every indicator we run eventually touches this scale, so the scale itself needed the same discipline we ask of everything downstream of it.
— Associate Professor Casimir Beng, Lead of the Adaptive Metrics Lab
Dr Renke Sabel, Senior Lecturer in the School of Continuous Improvement, is co-grantee: “An indicator that outlives the person who understood it is exactly the pattern we’ve spent years cataloguing elsewhere. It felt overdue to point the same lens at our own bench.”
The award reflects the School’s ongoing case that stewardship is infrastructure, not an afterthought improvised at the point someone resigns.
Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Succession Planning for the Lab's Reference Calibration Weights · $47,285 · awarded to Casimir Beng, Renke Sabel