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Podcast: After years of being publicly shamed for “fleecing” the taxpayers with their frivolous and obscure studies, scientists decided to hit back with … an awards show?! This episode, we gate-crash the Grammys of government-funded research, a.k.a. the Golden Goose Awards.
Mothers in academic research and those who support them say in a report that the funding system can and should remedy gender bias in the sciences.
Based on the state of research in the Science of Team Science, the question of which intra- and interpersonal factors are most significant for the success of a research team is investigated.
Concerns about systemic racism at academic and research institutions have increased. A study investigates data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and find evidence for pervasive racial disparities.
Reviewers would no longer score researchers' expertise and institutions during grant evaluations for the US biomedical agency.
Research bureaucracy and administrative burden has become so overpowering that many researchers are reporting that they don't have time to do any research anymore. Phill Jones argues that technology in the form of PIDs will go a long way to fixing this.
EU policymakers have reached a deal on the budget for next year, and with the focus squarely on tackling the fallout from the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis, research and innovation do not feature at the top of the policy priorities.
Likely Republican control of the House presages fiery hearings attacking Biden, but also gridlock
After setting sail nearly ten years ago, Europe's billion-euro flagship programmes have encountered many a stormy sea. But while one programme dedicated to graphene remains very much afloat, another - focused on the human brain - is foundering.
A major new international study finds that global science research serves the needs of the Global North, and is driven by the values and interests of a small number of companies, governments and funding bodies.
The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor says every government department needs to take science into consideration and invest more in R&D.
Funders must make pragmatism prestigious; the current obsession with novelty risks making science irrelevant.
Researchers fear further cuts to funding and a lack of action on climate.
More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.
More than resource allocations, evaluations of funding applications have become central instances for status bestowal in academia. Much attention in past literature has been devoted to grasping the status consequences of prominent funding evaluations.
The Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland's major public research funding agency, uses a Web of Science (WoS) based bibliometric indicator to assess the performance of research it has funded. CRIS-based publication data can support multidimensional assessments of research performance and scholarly communication profiles, potentially also in other countries and institutions.
The SNSF has been awarding grants to research projects across all scientific disciplines since 1952. How has the amount of funding evolved over time?
This study, proposes that the positive impact of public funds is much weaker in less-prestigious universities than in prestigious ones, and that overdependence on public research funding in fact even hurts academic output quality in less-prestigious universities.
This article illustrates the Bayesian Ranking and Lottery approach for two SNSF grant schemes in career and project funding.
This study aimed to reveal how researchers describe the collaboration with partners outside the university in research proposals.
