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In 2019, we founded RoRI on a simple idea: that the challenges of transforming research systems need more robust, systematic and comparative evidence.

Research is crucial to tackling many of the world’s most pressing and intractable challenges. But large amounts of time, effort and money could be wasted if research systems are not as efficient, responsive, impactful and fair as they could be. Researchers are also under heightened pressure to demonstrate their accountability, openness, reproducibility and integrity.

Much of the evidence needed to transform research systems exists, but needs to be unlocked, scaled up or better connected to become genuinely useful. There is a huge and barely-tapped opportunity to harness the capacity and enthusiasm of many researchers, funders and policymakers to turn the methods and tools of research back towards understanding and improving research itself.

Against this backdrop, RoRI pursues its mission through five objectives:

  • Boosting capacity for transdisciplinary, collaborative, applied and mixed-method research on research
  • Building infrastructures to connect academic capabilities to the data and analytical resources of research funding organisations
  • Experimenting with new tools, indicators, methods and evaluation frameworks
  • Accelerating the translation and uptake of metascientific evidence by decision-makers.
  • Enabling networking, co-design and collaboration between meta-researchers, funders, policymakers, publishers, data and infrastructure providers.

From the start, RoRI’s emphasis has been on enabling and accelerating practical kinds of metascience through partnerships. Our greatest asset is our consortium, now spanning public research funders and foundations across 21 countries, which between them invest over US$ 30 billion each year in research and innovation.

To support these partnerships and the projects that flow from them, RoRI now has a research and operational team networked across universities and research institutions in the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Argentina, India, Norway and Australia.

Find out more about our People

“When the RoRI founding partners met for the first time in London, we knew we had a bold vision: to transform the way that research is funded, communicated and evaluated. This vision would only be possible if we worked together with strategic partners around the world to create a trusted and collaborative environment where partners could openly share, experiment and take risks.”

Dr Chonnettia Jones, Executive Director, Addgene and Co-Founder of RoRI

Open Research Policy

RoRI is committed to open research as an important enabler of our mission to accelerate transformative research on research systems, cultures and decision-making. Read our Open Research Policy here.