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SUMMARY:ECR Research on Research Seminar Series (ECR RoRSS)
DESCRIPTION:We’re launching a new series of online talks by early career researchers (ECRs) on metascience / research on research topics (in their broadest senses). Each talk could be focused on completed research you want to share\, work in progress you want to brainstorm with colleagues\, or ideas for advancing metascience or future research you’d like to try out. \n\n\n\nAnyone self-identifying as an ECR can present\, and seminar attendance will be open to all ( we strongly encourage senior colleagues to join!). Webinars will be held on a monthly basis at lunchtimes (UK/EU) throughout the first half of 2026\, with flexible timing to include ECRs from across the globe. \n\n\n\nWe see a lot of potential in this\, and we hope this series becomes a vibrant\, inclusive\, and valuable space for knowledge-sharing and network-building for ECRs and the wider metascience community.  \n\n\n\nIf you’d like to present\, suggest a speaker\, or stay updated on upcoming talks\, please fill in this form or email us! \n\n\n\nEmail contact: a.l.butters@sheffield.ac.uk \n\n\n\nECR RoRSS organising committee \n\n\n\nAnna Butters (Sheffield/RoRI)\, Becky Ioppolo (Cambridge)\, Mollie Etheridge (Anglia Ruskin/Cambridge)\, Allison Beggs (Cambridge)\, Melanie Benson Marshall (Sheffield/RoRI)\, Josie Coburn (UCL/RoRI)\, Youyou Wu (UCL/RoRI)\, Similo Ngwenya (UCL/RoRI)\, Seunghyun Lee (UCL/RoRI)
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/ecr-research-on-research-seminar-series-ecr-rorss/
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SUMMARY:Past and Future of Research Funding: From Beginnings to New Developments
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 17 June 2026 13:00 (CEST) / 12:00 (BST) / 07:00 (EDT) \n\n\n\nFinn Luebber\, Universität Lübeck\, Germany \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the seminar \n\n\n\nInstitutionally organized research funding is a rather new development that has its roots in the beginnings of the last century. A marked increase in funding during and after World War II in the US led to an era of increased research productivity and popularized project-based peer-reviewed research funding. This way of funding distribution eventually spread to all Western funding systems\, although at varying time points and to varying degrees. Today\, there is an increasing amount of criticism of this system\, especially due to deficiencies in fairness\, high direct and indirect costs\, and questionable validity. Alongside incremental suggestions to improve this process\, the critique also stimulated the development of new approaches\, of which lottery elements are one of the most discussed. While the outright random distribution of funding is viewed with skepticism\, tiebreaker lotteries for random allocation among proposals pre-selected through peer review have been welcomed more positively. \n\n\n\nIn a recent article our group proposed a third way: A lottery-first approach\, in which a lottery determines who is eligible to submit a full proposal. In the talk\, I will present the approach theoretically and present empirical data around fairness\, costs\, and satisfaction. \n\n\n\nFinally\, I will consider why\, despite these criticisms and emerging alternatives\, the funding system remains resistant to change\, and which functions beyond selecting proposals on epistemic merit may help explain this persistence. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nFinn is a PhD candidate at the University of Lübeck in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy where he currently performs theoretical and empirical research about the lottery-first approach to funding. His wider research interests include theory development\, causal inference\, and measurement error. Having backgrounds in both psychology and molecular life science\, he tries to understand the inner workings of academia and organized research production from multiple angles. \n\n\n\nRegister in advance for this seminar: \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3XO13zn1Ts-HHidin4MFTw \n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/past-and-future-of-research-funding-from-beginnings-to-new-developments/
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SUMMARY:Distributed Peer Review: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
DESCRIPTION:This session of the AFIRE Experimental Funders Group will dive into Distributed Peer Review (DPR) – a reciprocal model where applicants themselves participate in the review process. \n\n\n\nThe AFIRE Experimental Funders Group series provides a dedicated space for research funders to delve into current issues\, share experimental approaches\, and discuss the future of research and innovation (R&I) funding. \n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\nIf you are a research funder interested in how experimental methods can improve grant-making\, please register via this link. \n\n\n\nAbout AFIRE\n\n\n\nRoRI’s AFIRE project aims to increase the volume and quality of funder experiments. By providing a venue for engagement and learning\, we help the funding community build the evidence base needed to innovate with confidence.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/distributed-peer-review-afire-experimental-funders-group/
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SUMMARY:Desk Rejection: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
DESCRIPTION:This session of the AFIRE Experimental Funders Group will dive into Desk Rejection\,  the practice whereby staff at a funding agency screen applications early in the process and remove those that are unlikely to succeed\, without sending them out for external peer review. \n\n\n\nThe AFIRE Experimental Funders Group series provides a dedicated space for research funders to delve into current issues\, share experimental approaches\, and discuss the future of research and innovation (R&I) funding. \n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\nIf you are a research funder interested in how experimental methods can improve grant-making\, please register via this link. \n\n\n\nAbout AFIRE\n\n\n\nRoRI’s AFIRE project aims to increase the volume and quality of funder experiments. By providing a venue for engagement and learning\, we help the funding community build the evidence base needed to innovate with confidence.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/desk-rejection-afire-experimental-funders-group/
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SUMMARY:'Lottery First' methods: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
DESCRIPTION:This session of the AFIRE Experimental Funders Group will dive into ‘Lottery First’ methods\, exploring the idea of allocating research grants where random selection replaces part of the traditional ranking process. \n\n\n\nThe AFIRE Experimental Funders Group series provides a dedicated space for research funders to delve into current issues\, share experimental approaches\, and discuss the future of research and innovation (R&I) funding. \n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\nIf you are a research funder interested in how experimental methods can improve grant-making\, please register via this link. \n\n\n\nAbout AFIRE\n\n\n\nRoRI’s AFIRE project aims to increase the volume and quality of funder experiments. By providing a venue for engagement and learning\, we help the funding community build the evidence base needed to innovate with confidence.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/lottery-first-methods-afire-experimental-funders-group/
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