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In ResearchProfessional News (£) @scurry.bsky.social discusses our paper on fast and flexible research funding, warning there are no "silver bullets" and funders must track data to prove their bureaucracy-cutting works: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Great to see Science|Business feature our latest landscape review of funder experiments to cut grant bureaucracy; read the piece here (£): sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...
How much red tape is actually necessary to run the research ecosystem? 📄❌
@scurry.bsky.social's latest post looks at why past attempts to cut funding bureaucracy have seen mixed success & why funders must work harder to defend risk-taking: researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/red-tape-a...
A clip from next week's Under Review podcast where I chatted with @jameswilsdon.bsky.social about the rapid change to the research funding landscape due to generative AI.
We discuss many things including how AI-generated grant proposals have increased vastly in number and what to do about that.
Our new working paper, "Fast and flexible research funding: a review," analyzes the unsustainable time and paperwork required for grant applications, offering key recommendations to help global funders reduce this bureaucratic burden: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...
🇳🇦 We are delighted to welcome Namibia's NCRST as a new collaborator! At the GRC in Bangkok, we signed a partnership to work together on improving research funding efficiency and strengthening Global South perspectives in metascience: researchonresearch.org/rori-welcome...
@alexrushforth.bsky.social, Paul Wouters, and @ludowaltman.bsky.social (RoRI & @cwts.nl) warn that national research assessment systems face a dual legitimacy crisis: AI is polluting published literature and infiltrating evaluation itself: researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/can-nation...
Brilliant to be at @unimelb.edu.au to hear @fidlerfm.bsky.social opening a workshop on the future of metascience in Australia, linked to our ‘Meta-Moment’ project researchonresearch.org/rori-launche...
RoRI’s @jameswilsdon.bsky.social joins @andytattersall.bsky.social’s Under Review podcast to discuss how generative AI could transform research funding, challenge traditional grant systems, and force a rethink of how excellence is assessed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWbp...
Research on Research Institute (RoRI)
Research on Research Institute (RoRI)
NEW on the @rorinstitute.bsky.social Substack: I look at the headlines on our review (published today) of studies of interventions to cut red tape and make research funding faster & more flexible. substack.com/@stephencurr...
Surging application numbers raise stakes amid concern over universities moderating demand for grants
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Trying to cut research grant paperwork in academia is all the rage. Applicants are frustrated at having to submit seemingly enormous proposals for a tiny chance of success, and reviewers are burned ou...
