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British Academy Research Fellow, RoRI

Similo is a British Academy Research Fellow at RoRI. She works on a metascientific study that explores and analyses the changing landscape, impacts and interdependencies of social science, humanities and arts (SHAPE) research in Southern Africa. 

She previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, where she was part of an international project exploring the interplay between evaluation and inequalities in science, using forestry as an empirical case.  

Her research interests include studies of science policy, epistemic inequity, inclusion and exclusion, research collaboration, research evaluation, and bibliometric and scientometric analysis.