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      A study of cumulative advantages in funding allocation

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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.

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

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RoRI is a nonprofit community interest company (CIC) governed by a board of its partners.

The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) was founded in 2019 by a group of researchers, funders and data providers with a mission to accelerate transformative research on research systems, cultures and decision-making. 

Initially set up as a collaborative project, RoRI was based for most of its pilot phase (2019-2022) at the Wellcome Trust in London. 

After the completion and positive evaluation of this pilot phase, RoRI was established as a nonprofit community interest company (CIC). Its second phase is set to run for five years, to the end of 2027.

RoRI CIC is incorporated in England and Wales under company number 14404760. Its registered office is at University College London (℅ STEaPP, 4th Floor, Shropshire House, 11-20 Capper Street, London WC1E 6JA, UK).

RoRI CIC has four founding members—Digital Science; Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF); Swiss National Science Foundation and University College London (UCL). These member organisations nominate directors to the RoRI CIC Members Board.

RoRI CIC Board Members

  • Daniel Hook (Digital Science), Director and Chair, RoRI CIC; 
  • Gert V. Balling (NNF), Director, RoRI CIC and Co-Chair, RoRI Partnership Board; 
  • Sarah Chaytor (UCL), Director, RoRI CIC;
  • Katrin Milzow (SNSF), Director, RoRI CIC and Co-Chair, RoRI Partnership Board; 
  • James Wilsdon (UCL), Director, RoRI CIC and Executive Director, RoRI;
  • Chonnettia Jones (Addgene), Independent Director, RoRI CIC;
  • Paul Gemmill, Treasurer and Independent Director, RoRI CIC;
  • Deborah Farmer, Board Secretary, RoRI CIC.

This governance model is designed to enable RoRI to operate as a lean, flexible and independent legal entity, with a defined social purpose. You can read more about the community interest company model here and here.

As a responsive and responsible research funder, we strive to continually learn and adapt our programs to ensure maximum impact. That is why we joined RoRI: to practice evidence-informed health research funding in a way that brings national and international best practices into the British Columbia and Canadian health research systems.”

Bev Holmes, Ph.D., President and CEO, Michael Smith Health Research BC

RoRI’s strategic priorities, and the codesign and delivery of its work programme, are delegated to its Partnership Board. 

RoRI’s Partnership Board consists of nominated representatives of its Core Partners, which currently include the following:

Australian Research CouncilClaire ForsythKe Zhang
“La Caixa” Foundation Ignasi López VerdeguerCarla Carbonell Cortés
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)Alison BourgonSarah Passmore
Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden UniversityLudo Waltman (Co-Chair)Alex Rushforth
Digital Science Daniel HookJürgen Wastl
Dutch Research Council (NWO)Jurgen GanzevlesJohannes van der Vos
Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationTed Hodapp
FNR Luxembourg Cindy Lopes BentoSean Sapcariu
King Baudouin Foundation Laetitia AertsSofie Bekaert
Michael Smith Health Research BCKevin SauveEllie Griffith

Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF)
Gert V. Balling (Co-Chair)Thomas Alslev Christensen
Research England (part of UK Research and Innovation) Steven HillClaire Fraser
Research on Research Institute (RoRI)James WilsdonDeborah Farmer
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)Matthew LucasAlexandra Apavaloae
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)Katrin Milzow (Co-Chair)Michaela Strinzel 
University College London (UCL) Sarah Chaytor
Volkswagen Foundation Henrike HartmannAntje Tepperwien
Wellcome TrustAlyson Fox

RoRI’s operations are coordinated by a small core team, based at UCL in London, who manage a network of researchers and collaborators across our partner organisations. Read more about the team behind RoRI.

RoRI also has several project partners which don’t sit on our Partnership Board but work with us on one or more projects. Examples include:

  • FWF-Austria

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