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Ensuring that we have the evidence we need to realise the full potential of research.

Unlocking the potential of the US$2.5 trillion invested globally in research.

RoRI aims to unlock more of the potential of the US$2.5 trillion invested globally in research every year. By turning the tools of research back on itself, RoRI generates data and analysis to improve how we fund, practice, evaluate and communicate research.

Metascience 2025 Conference

June 30 – July 2, 2025
University College London

A global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define a roadmap of research and intervention priorities to accelerate science.

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Metascience in South Africa

From Stellenbosch to Pretoria, RoRI’s March visit to South Africa deepened partnerships and sparked new conversations on transforming research systems

Registration for Metascience 2025 is now open!

Metascience is moving to the mainstream – and shaping research worldwide. Since the first gathering in 2019, the biennial Metascience conferences have become the most influential meeting point for researchers, […]

Implementing Narrative CVs: Five recommendations for Funders

New RoRI Insights report with practical recommendations to help funders…

Help Shape the Metascience Alliance

Set to launch at the Metascience 2025 Conference, this new…

RoRI welcomes British Academy-funded International Fellow from Stellenbosch University

Dr Similo Ngwenya will be based at RoRI and STEaPP-UCL…

AI Thinking: a framework for rethinking artificial intelligence in practice

New research published by RoRI’s Denis Newman-Griffis in Royal Society Open Science presents new…

Current Projects

Through its flagship projects, RoRI brings together organisations and people who want to change research for the better, creating space for exchange and collaboration.

Matthew

A study of cumulative advantages in funding allocation

Narratives

The uses and evaluation of researchers’ narrative CVs

GRAIL

Getting responsible about AI and machine learning in research funding and evaluation

Funder Data Platform

A Secure Collaboration Hub for Metascience

AGORRA

A global observatory of responsible research assessment

Undisciplined

Future models of funding and evaluating transdisciplinary research

Peer Review

RoRI Atlas of Peer Review

Portfolios

Research funding landscape analysis

MetaROR

A platform for open peer review of metaresearch

AFIRE

Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation

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Resources

Through articles, reports, working papers, experiments and practical tools, RoRI aims to supply the evidence and data that people and organisations need to change research for the better. All RoRI publications and resources are openly available to everyone.

Projects

Find out about our flagship current projects for 2023 to 2024 and our pilot projects from 2019 to 2022.

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