Upfront I’ll admit my ignorance about academic institutions and how they operate, so my comments are made through eyes of a private businessman.

In your comments above, you stated, “My tenure committee isn’t going to want to see me with only 5 studies I have presented twice and then published, they want to see me doing a multitude of studies presented and published.”

It seems to me that the issue may not really be about double-dipping, but may more about “performance requirements”, or expectations.

Would your “double-dipping” question still exist if the expectations were clearly defined as unwavering performance requirements which must be met or you wouldn’t either graduate or be tenured or have a job?

For example, let’s say the “requirement” was clearly defined as: Five unique studies (seems like a lot, but maybe that’s over a 2 year period) must be done and presented and published.

If that “requirement” were met, would the question about whether you went above and beyond that be an issue?

In private business the charge is to get the message out as many times through as many different forms of media to as many people as possible. If there’s overlap there’s even a justification for why that’s a good thing. Same message frequency increases the chance the person hearing it will actually remeber it and take action or put the message to good use.

In any case, keep up the good work!