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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.
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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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