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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:Interdisciplinarity & Transdisciplinarity (ECR RoRSS)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 8 July 2026 07:00 (EDT) / 12:00 (BST) / 13:00 (CEST) / 21:00 (AEST) \n\n\n\n\nPart of the ECR Research on Research Seminar Series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne-Sophie Schaltegger\, ETH Zürich \n\n\n\nA social and cultural perspective on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research assessment: learning from three Swiss funding schemes \n\n\n\nResearch assessment mechanisms are still considered one of the main barriers to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research (IDR/TDR). Particularly in the funding domain\, criteria and processes used to evaluate the quality of IDR/TDR proposals\, or to monitor the progress of funded IDR/TDR projects\, create biases against collaborative\, boundary-spanning research. To be able to develop adequate solutions\, more knowledge is needed about the current lived realities and experiences of actors involved in IDR/TDR assessment: panel members\, funding officers\, and the researchers themselves. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, I present insights from my ethnographic study of ten assessment panels and implicated funding officers and researchers in three Swiss IDR/TDR funding schemes. I will outline three main findings resulting from this research: 1) the need to acknowledge and leverage – rather than to reduce – the conceptual and epistemic diversity in assessment panels\, 2) the potential of scaffolding IDR/TDR assessment as a relational\, social process\, and 3) the opportunity of using assessment itself as a resource for all involved actors in the challenging endeavour of making IDR/TDR happen successfully. \n\n\n\nAnne-Sophie Schaltegger holds a BA degree in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Zurich\, as well as an MSc degree in cognitive and evolutionary anthropology from the University of Oxford. She successfully defended her doctoral thesis in May 2026\, for which she ethnographically studied interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research assessment in Swiss funding schemes as a member of the Cultural Studies of Science and Technology group at ETH Zürich. Previously\, she worked in organisational development consulting\, coaching and supporting teams and organisations in shaping their cultures to allow for agile and collaborative ways of working. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHussein Zeidan\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam \n\n\n\nFrom slogan to practice: Restoring transdisciplinarity as a serious way of working \n\n\n\nTransdisciplinarity is increasingly celebrated as a pathway to better science\, yet its growing visibility masks persistent conceptual ambiguity and a widening gap between rhetoric and practice. While publications often present it in optimistic terms\, the real frustrations surface informally\, in the hallway conversations where scholars acknowledge the tensions\, contradictions\, and institutional pressures shaping their work. \n\n\n\nIn this contribution\, I surface these underlying tensions and question how Pop-Transdisciplinarity have taken hold. I invite us to reconsider what we expect transdisciplinarity to achieve\, how it operates in practice\, and how it intersects with other approaches to societal and epistemic challenges. I aim to move beyond superficial claims toward a more honest\, ethically grounded\, and rigorous engagement\, one that confronts transdisciplinarity’s blind spots and situates it within broader debates on knowledge\, power\, and the moral responsibilities of science. \n\n\n\nHussein Zeidan is a trained mechanical and renewable energy engineer with an MA in Science and Technology Studies. He previously worked in the humanitarian and development sector. He is currently a Lecturer and Researcher at the Athena Institute\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. His work examines how transdisciplinarity is translated into educational practice and how it is used to cultivate competencies that support student learning and development. \n\n\n\nRegister at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/97N9DVJdRO2eWvjcqJpPbw
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/interdisciplinarity-transdisciplinarity-ecr-rorss/
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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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