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SUMMARY:Do Grant Proposal Texts Matter for Funding Decisions? A Field Experiment
DESCRIPTION:19 March 2025 08:00 PDT  / 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET \n\n\n\nScientists 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? \n\n\n\nWe report on a field experiment conducted by The Dutch Research Council (NWO) in collaboration with the authors in an early-career competition for awards of 800\,000 euros of research funding. A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research\, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings. This result suggests that the resources devoted to writing and evaluating grant proposals may not have their intended effect of facilitating the selection of the most promising science. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\nMüge Simsek is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the programme group Institutions\, Inequalities and Life Courses at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her PhD from Utrecht University in 2019 and completed postdoctoral research at both Utrecht University and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. Prior to her current role\, she worked as a lecturer at University College Groningen. Her research centers on the integration processes of immigrants and their offspring\, with a particular emphasis on the role of religion. In parallel\, she maintains a secondary research agenda focused on the organization of science and inequality within academia.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/do-grant-proposal-texts-matter-for-funding-decisions-a-field-experiment/
CATEGORIES:Experiments
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SUMMARY:An experiment with Distributed Peer Review
DESCRIPTION: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 an incentive for reviewers to participate in order to have their own work considered. Applicants gain insights that could improve their own proposals by receiving more diverse feedback. DPR may also help to bring out more creative and daring research ideas. \n\n\n\nWhile it’s not without challenges\, including concerns about workload and potential competition\, the early feedback from researchers is promising. Roughly 74% said they trusted the process to be fair in giving funding to the best research\, and 70% of respondents said they thought it would help to identify more adventurous grant proposals than those selected by the existing peer review process\, which is conducted by panelists appointed by the foundation. \n\n\n\nCould this be a model for future grant processes in research funding? Further analysis seeks to answer this question. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHanna Denecke is a passionate advocate for curiosity-driven research and the transformative power of bold\, out-of-the-box ideas. As head of the Exploration team at the Volkswagen Foundation\, she is committed to supporting groundbreaking research that has the potential to reshape the future of science and society. With a background in economics and extensive experience in research management\, Hanna is keen to identify and promote experimental approaches to research funding and to further the Foundation’s mission of empowering researchers to explore bold\, experimental paths that can ultimately transform both science and society.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/an-experiment-with-distributed-peer-review/
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SUMMARY:Do we need a new generation of public institutions for ST&I?
DESCRIPTION:Do we need a new generation of public institutions for ST&I? \n\n\n\nPublic 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 more\, including business. The deep institutional conservatism of public science may be one factor behind the continuous decline of R&D productivity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis talk from Sir Geoff Mulgan\, Professor of Collective Intelligence\, Public Policy and Social Innovation\, UCL STEaPP & Co-founder\, The Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL)\, will provide a diagnosis\, share alternative ways of thinking being used by some governments around the world\, and point to a potentially very different institutional landscape for science and technology in the 2030s. \n\n\n\nThis event will be chaired by James Wilsdon\, Professor of Research Policy\, UCL & Executive Director\, Research on Research Institute. \n\n\n\nAnjana Ahuja\, Science Commentator at the Financial Times\, William Cullerne Bown\, Journalist at The Independent and New Scientist\, and Ine Steenmans\, Associate Professor in Futures\, Analysis and Policy at UCL\, will join as discussants. \n\n\n\nArticle in ResearchProfessional covering the seminar\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFlashpoints & faultlines in science\, technology\, engineering & public policy: a STEaPP seminar series \n\n\n\nScience\, technology and engineering policy has never been more important\, nor more contested. Over the next year\, UCL’s Department of Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) will be holding a series of seminars under the umbrella theme of ‘Flashpoints & faultlines in science\, technology\, engineering and public policy’. These are designed to provoke and stimulate fresh lines of thought\, debate and research within the department\, across UCL and beyond. \n\n\n\nAll staff and students in STEaPP are warmly invited to participate\, as are colleagues from across UCL with an interest in these topics. The series is being convened by Geoff Mulgan and James Wilsdon\, and is being organised with the support of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI)\, based within STEaPP.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/do-we-need-a-new-generation-of-public-institutions-for-sti/
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SUMMARY:Two-stage versus continuous application processing
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nOur analyses reveal how each approach influences submission patterns\, applicant satisfaction\, and administrative load. We will present key insights from our evaluations (including comparisons with other funders)\, highlighting when and why a particular process may be most effective. 
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/two-stage-versus-continuous-application-processing/
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SUMMARY:More and More and More: why energy transitions are an unhelpful myth
DESCRIPTION:Think we’re transitioning to green energy? Think again. Join us for a talk on the history\, mythology and politics of energy transitions.\n\n\n\nJoin us for a compelling discussion with Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\, historian and researcher at CNRS & the Alexandre Koyré Center of EHESS in Paris\, as he forensically dissects the past and future potential for energy transitions. \n\n\n\nFressoz’s new book More and More and More; an all-consuming history of energy – described by The Economist as ‘necessary\, eye-opening and frequently gobsmacking’ – challenges the widely held assumption that our energy history is a linear progression from wood to coal\, oil\, nuclear\, and ultimately to green energy. Instead\, he argues that each new phase of energy use remains inextricably linked to its predecessors\, creating a complex web of interdependencies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar\, the second in our new series on ‘Flashpoints & faultlines’ will be chaired by Neil Morisetti (Professor of Climate and Resource Security\, and Head of the Department for Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) at UCL\, and former UK Government Special Representative for Climate Change). \n\n\n\nWe will also have contributions from discussants: Dr Bipashyee Ghosh\, Lecturer in Engineering\, Innovation and Public Policy at STEaPP-UCL\, and Oliver Morton (Senior and Briefings Editor\, The Economist). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFlashpoints & faultlines in science\, technology\, engineering & public policy: a STEaPP seminar series\n\n\n\nScience\, technology and engineering policy has never been more important\, nor more contested. Over the next year\, UCL’s Department of Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) will be holding a series of seminars under the umbrella theme of ‘Flashpoints & faultlines in science\, technology\, engineering and public policy’. These are designed to provoke and stimulate fresh lines of thought\, debate and research within the department\, across UCL and beyond. \n\n\n\nAll staff and students in STEaPP are warmly invited to participate\, as are colleagues from across UCL with an interest in these topics. The series is being convened by Geoff Mulgan and James Wilsdon\, and is being organised with the support of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI)\, based within STEaPP. \n\n\n\nSeminars will take place from 4pm to 5:30pm\, on the last Tuesday or Wednesday of the month\, and will be followed by an informal drinks and nibbles reception to 6pm. The seminars are held in person as an opportunity to strengthen collaborative links across STEaPP and wider UCL.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/more-and-more-and-more-why-energy-transitions-are-an-unhelpful-myth/
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SUMMARY:Launching Funding by Algorithm: A Handbook for research funders on using AI
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Funding by Algorithm: A handbook for responsible uses of AI and machine learning by research funders – a major new publication from the Research on Research Institute (RoRI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI is already transforming research systems around the world. But how can funders make informed\, ethical\, and effective choices about using AI in their work? \n\n\n\nFor the last two years\, RoRI’s GRAIL project has worked closely with research funders from around the world to understand how funders can responsibly and effectively make use of AI and machine learning technologies in the vital work of research funding and assessment.  \n\n\n\nOur new handbook Funding by Algorithm distils insights\, strategies\, and case studies from this global collaboration into a practical\, easy-to-use handbook for funders and organisations navigating the fast-changing world of AI in research systems. \n\n\n\nAt this online launch event\, we’ll introduce the handbook\, share key lessons from the GRAIL project\, and hear reflections from leading research funders already engaging with these technologies. Whether you’re cautious\, curious\, or already experimenting with AI\, this event will offer valuable guidance on how to move forward responsibly. \n\n\n\nYou will hear from speakers including: \n\n\n\n\nJames Wilsdon\, Executive Director of the Research on Research Institute\n\n\n\nDenis Newman-Griffis\, University of Sheffield and GRAIL Project Lead\n\n\n\nKatrin Milzow\, Swiss National Science Foundation\n\n\n\nJon Holm\, Research Council of Norway\n\n\n\nInés Bouzón\, “la Caixa” Foundation\n\n\n\nAlexandra Apavaloae\, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada\n\n\n\nJennifer Gold\, ESRC and UK Metascience Unit\n\n\n\nLidia Borrell-Damian\, Science Europe
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/launching-funding-by-algorithm-a-handbook-for-research-funders-on-using-ai/
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SUMMARY:Metascience 2025 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Save the Date: \n\n\n\nJune 30 – July 2\, 2025University College London\n\n\n\nFrom 30 June to 2 July 2025\, the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the Center for Open Science (COS) welcomed over 800 researchers\, funders\, policymakers\, and innovators from 65 countries to explore the future of science and research systems. \n\n\n\n\nMetascience 2025 marked one of RoRI’s biggest milestones to date and the largest gathering of the global metascience community. Attendees came from across research\, funding\, publishing\, policy\, technology\, and related sectors to share evidence\, exchange ideas\, and reflect on how research systems can be improved. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMetascience 2025 showcased the power of collaboration across the metascience community\, leaving a lasting legacy of knowledge\, connections\, and inspiration for the future of research. \n\n\n\n \n\nConference sessions\n\n\n\n\nWatch the main sessions from Metascience 2025\, covering policymaking\, funding\, the science of science\, AI\, new institutions\, and open knowledge infrastructures \n\n\n\n\nSee the full story of Metascience 2025 on our Wakelet\, featuring photos\, media coverage\, and highlights from the conference.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/metascience-2025-conference/
CATEGORIES:2025
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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:Scientific Production in the Era of Large Language Models: Early Evidence from Large-scale Preprint Data
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 26 May at 9:00 (EDT) / 14:00 (BST) / 15:00 (CEST) \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yian Yin\, Cornell University\, USA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the seminar \n\n\n\nThe 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 language models (LLMs) remains limited. In this talk\, I draw on several large-scale analyses to examine how LLM use affects the productivity of individual scientists\, reshapes attention to prior work\, introduces hallucinated content into the scientific record\, and creates new challenges for peer review. Taken together\, these findings provide macro-level evidence on the impact of generative AI on science\, highlighting the need for institutions\, journals\, funding agencies\, and the broader public to rethink how scientific work should be evaluated in this new era. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nYian Yin is Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell University. His research interests lie at the intersection of network science and computational social science\, with a particular focus on the science of science. He applies and develops novel computational tools to understand how individual\, social\, and environmental processes independently and jointly promote (or inhibit) scientific progress and innovation achievements.His research has been published in journals including Science\, Nature and Nature Human Behaviour\, featured in media outlets such as Forbes\, Scientific American\, Washington Post\, and Harvard Business Review\, and supported by research grants from National Science Foundation\, National Aeronautics and Space Administration\, Schmidt Sciences\, and UK Economic and Social Research Council. \n\n\n\nRegister in advance for this seminar: \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JF0DKNl3TFehf54YHgLmuA \n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/scientific-production-in-the-era-of-large-language-models-early-evidence-from-large-scale-preprint-data/
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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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