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Research Careers & Research Funding
15 Oct 2026
11th November 12-1pm GMT/ 1-2pm CET Part of the ECR Research on Research Seminar Series. ‘Opening up’ evaluations of research(er) quality: the case of narrative-style CVs in Dutch research funding Marta Sienkiewicz In their commitment to responsible research assessment, many research funders experiment with narrative-style CV formats in their grant funding evaluations. These new evaluative […]
How Narrative CVs reshape research assessment in practice
24 Sep 2026
Narrative CVs promise reform – but do they work? Join us for a webinar discussing evidence from funding panels at major European funders
Replication
16 Sep 2026
Exploring the real-world impact of failed replications across science and AI
Interdisciplinarity & Transdisciplinarity
16 Jun 2026
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 […]
‘Lottery First’ methods: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
12 May 2026
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 […]
Distributed Peer Review: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
12 May 2026
Speakers from across the research funder community discuss their experiences of Distributed Peer Review (DPR). Jessica Biddinger (American Heart Foundation), Svenja Vandertol (NWO), Tom Stafford/Stephen Pinfield (VWS) and Sampsa Kaataja (NordForsk) share insights from DPR use at their organisations. About AFIRE RoRI’s AFIRE project aims to increase the volume and quality of funder experiments. By […]
Desk Rejection: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
12 May 2026
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 […]
AI in Funding: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
12 May 2026
Andrés F. Rodríguez, Impact and Learning Manager at Stanford Impact Labs (SIL), an impact-oriented research funder, spoke on “The role of evaluations on responsible AI use for research grant-making” Ben Steyn, Head of Metascience at DSIT and co-head of the DSIT/UKRI Metascience Unit spoke about a portfolio of UKRI projects to test the feasibility and effectiveness of AI […]
Scientific Production in the Era of Large Language Models: Early Evidence from Large-scale Preprint Data
17 Apr 2026
Tuesday 26 May at 9:00 (EDT) / 14:00 (BST) / 15:00 (CEST) Speaker: Yian Yin, Cornell University, USA About the seminar The rapid adoption of AI across disciplines is reshaping the landscape of scientific production. While both enthusiasm and concern about generative AI in research are rising, systematic empirical evidence on the impact of large […]
Past and Future of Research Funding: From Beginnings to New Developments
17 Apr 2026
Finn Luebber, Universität Lübeck, Germany About the seminar Institutionally organised 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 […]
ECR Research on Research Seminar Series (ECR RoRSS)
27 Feb 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 […]
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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 […]
Research Careers & Research Funding
11 Nov 2026, 12pm–1pm
11th November 12-1pm GMT/ 1-2pm CET Part of the ECR Research on Research Seminar Series. ‘Opening up’ evaluations of research(er) quality: the case of narrative-style CVs in Dutch research funding Marta Sienkiewicz In their commitment to responsible research assessment, many research funders experiment with narrative-style CV formats in their grant funding evaluations. These new evaluative […]
How Narrative CVs reshape research assessment in practice
16 Nov 2026, 2pm–3:15pm
Narrative CVs promise reform – but do they work? Join us for a webinar discussing evidence from funding panels at major European funders
‘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 […]
Enhancing Research Transparency
17 Dec 2026, 3pm–4pm
Part of the ECR Research on Research Seminar Series
Desk Rejection: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group
24 Feb 2027, 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 […]
Past events
Two-stage versus continuous application processing
21 May 2025, 4pm–5pm
Curious about how different grant processes shape outcomes for both applicants and funders? In this talk, we share our experiences with continuous and two-stage processes – from shrinking average waiting times by more than 60 % through continuous handling, to reducing overall writing effort by nearly half using a two-stage model. Our analyses reveal how […]
Do we need a new generation of public institutions for ST&I?
30 Apr 2025, 4pm–6pm
Do we need a new generation of public institutions for ST&I? Public institutions for science and technology have hardly changed over half a century; even the UK’s most recent creation, ARIA, is consciously modelled on a US institution founded in the 1960s. But there is much to learn from other sectors that have innovated far […]
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 […]
