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Future models of funding and evaluating transdisciplinary research [completed]
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RoRI Atlas of Peer Review
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Advancing Research on Research Use to Enhance Positive Impact
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The uses and evaluation of researchers’ narrative CVs
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Translating Publish-Review-Curate outputs into actionable signals for research funders: A MetaROR Study
META-MOMENT
Summary Metascience is exploding into the mainstream. Its simple premise – to turn the data and methods of science back towards analysing and improving science itself – is increasingly being adopted and advanced by governments, funding agencies and researchers themselves. These agendas aren’t new: metascience builds on longstanding research into research systems. But there is […]
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A study of cumulative advantages in funding allocation [completed]
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Getting responsible about AI and machine learning in research funding and evaluation [completed]
Funder Data Platform
A Secure Collaboration Hub for Metascience
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Exploring gender inequality in research funding
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New geographies of research assessment
Upcoming
ECR Research on Research Seminar Series (ECR RoRSS)
1 Mar – 31 Dec 2026
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 […]
Interdisciplinarity & Transdisciplinarity (ECR RoRSS)
8 Jul 2026, 12pm
Wednesday 8 July 2026 07:00 (EDT) / 12:00 (BST) / 13:00 (CEST) / 21:00 (AEST) Part of the ECR Research on Research Seminar Series. Anne-Sophie Schaltegger, ETH Zürich A social and cultural perspective on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research assessment: learning from three Swiss funding schemes Research assessment mechanisms are still considered one of the main […]
Desk Rejection: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
14 Oct 2026, 3pm–4pm
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. The AFIRE Experimental Funders Group series provides a dedicated space for research […]
‘Lottery First’ methods: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
16 Dec 2026, 8am–9am
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. The AFIRE Experimental Funders Group series provides a dedicated space for research funders to delve into current issues, share experimental approaches, and discuss the […]
Past events
An experiment with Distributed Peer Review
23 Apr 2025, 8am–9am
As it becomes increasingly difficult to find experts to carry out peer reviews, the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover, Germany’s largest research funding organisation, is testing an alternative method: distributed peer review (DPR). In this approach, grant applicants review each other’s proposals. The process could make it easier to find suitable reviewers, especially as there is […]
Do Grant Proposal Texts Matter for Funding Decisions? A Field Experiment
19 Mar 2025, 3pm–4pm
19 March 2025 08:00 PDT / 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report on a field experiment conducted by The Dutch Research Council (NWO) in collaboration with the authors […]
Utility of LLMs in identifying and assessing academic genres
3 Dec 2024, 1pm–2:30pm
The European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH) in partnership with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) is proud to present the next webinar in its series on research evaluation as it is practiced across disciplines and countries. This is the second event in a thematic line on AI in research assessment. This time we […]
Introducing MetaROR: A new peer review platform for metaresearch
26 Nov 2024, 3pm–4:30pm
The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) are launching the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform. MetaROR will facilitate open peer review of articles in the field of metaresearch, and will operate according to a publish-review-curate model. This model will accelerate the communication of scholarly work since peer review will take place quickly, openly, and after publication […]
Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) in classification of Social Sciences and Humanities research and societal impact
11 Nov 2024, 1pm–2:30pm
The European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH) in partnership with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) is proud to present the next webinar in its series on research evaluation as it is practiced across disciplines and countries. We are opening a new thematic line on AI in research assessment with the presentation of two […]
Advancing Open Research through Metascience
2 Oct 2024, 4pm–5:30pm
This ICOR meeting focused on the growing significance of metascience for improving scientific research. As metascience becomes a recognised practice for evaluating scientific evidence and identifying potential biases, it’s important for stakeholders from different regions to collaborate on metascience projects and share expertise and resources that address common challenges. A unified approach to metascience can […]
Launching AFIRE: An accelerator to boost institutional capacity for experiments with research and innovation funding
13 May 2024, 8am–5pm
On 13 May, 31 research funders from 17 countries participated in the launch of RoRI’s newest project AFIRE (Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation). Across research systems worldwide, interest in trialing novel methods of research funding and evaluation is growing fast, but funders are at different points in their engagement and readiness. AFIRE is […]
Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis
17 Nov 2023, 4pm–5:30pm
Christen A. Smith (The Cite Black Women Collective) The politics of citation are often considered a purely academic, bibliographic exercise. However, the practice of citation is a keenly political one that is imbricated with race and gender politics. In this talk, we explore the politics of inequality hidden within the practice of citation by considering […]
The emerging shape of REF 2028
5 Jul 2023, 11:30am–12:30pm
Digesting, debating and delivering the outcomes of the UK’s Future of Research Assessment Programme Since 1986, UK universities have lived through eight cycles of national research assessment. Over that time, the purposes and methods of assessment have evolved and become more complex. The last Research Excellence Framework—REF 2021—involved 157 institutions submitting over 185,000 research outputs […]
