Director, @RoRInstitute. Professor of research policy at UCL STEaPP. Transdisciplinary metascience for the win.
The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open! We’re after ideas for sessions, talks, posters & online symposia. Deadline 7 February https://metascience.info/call-for-proposals/
And if you haven’t already, save the date! 30 June to 2 July #Metascience25
Excited to share that later this month @RoRInstitute and @aimos will launch the new #MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform, offering open peer review of articles in the field of metaresearch.
Together with Kathryn Zeiler, I will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the platform. Other collaborators include @aidybarnett, @alexh, @andrebrasil, @jameswilsdon, @jasonchin, @stephenpinfield, among others.
See https://researchonresearch.org/metaror-launch/ for information about our launch events on November 21 and 26.
Summary of priorities for the call here. This should be a game changer for UK work in this arena. Congratulations to all those involved in getting it over the line.
Go meta! Delighted to see the new £5M metascience funding call has hit the streets from UKRI, ESRC, DSIT & Open Philanthropy. Projects up to £300K each. Deadline 16 July. https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-research-grants/
The social sciences act as a ‘secret sauce’ in wider recipes for R&D, says RoRI's
@jameswilsdon 🌶️ 🔥
New report published by UK’s Academy of Social Sciences & Sage Publishing highlights the importance of social science to UK research and innovation: https://researchonresearch.org/restoring-the-social-sciences-to-their-rightful-place/
I spoke to @calebwatney about the new partnership between @NSF and the Institute for Progress, which will conduct a series of economic and social experiments based on data provided by the NSF to find more innovative ways of funding research: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03933-3
As the UK’s new Department of Science, Innovation & Technology goes meta, here’s me in Wonkhe on why we should seize this metascientific moment to make research work better & smarter https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-government-discovers-metascience/
The Research on Research Institute is hiring! Four roles available in our core team @RoRInstitute, based at UCL.
We’re seeking an Operations Manager; a Research Fellow in Metascience; a Communications & Impact Manager; and an Administrator. More here: https://researchonresearch.org/rori-is-hiring-join-our-core-team-based-at-ucl/
Plans for REF 2028 should de debated, not throttled. New OA piece by @StephenCurry Lizzie Gadd & me on debates now hotting up over the place of research culture in assessment https://www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/political-science-blog/2023/10/Plans-for-REF-2028-should-be-debated--not-throttled.html
The teams of @aimos and @RoRInstitute are working hard to set up the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform for publication and peer review of research in the field of metaresearch, or research on research.
We just published a short piece in #EASST Review to introduce our plans for MetaROR to the science and technology studies (STS) community https://www.easst.net/article/metaror-a-new-form-of-scholarly-publishing-and-peer-review-for-sts/.
@jasonchin @siminevazire @aidybarnett @alexh @stephenpinfield @jameswilsdon
‘A huge relief’: more researcher reactions to the imminent UK-EU deal on Horizon Europe https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/06/scientists-react-to-news-of-uk-rejoining-horizon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Horizon deal awaits Sunak’s signature: BBC’s Pallab Ghosh has the latest, with reactions from CaSE, Krebs, Nurse & me
Can AI predict research impacts? Should deep content models replace citations as a basis for science policy and funding?
Join us this Thurs 15 June for an online RoRI seminar with @ucl’s Amy Nelson & Parashkev Nachev: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-ai-predict-research-impacts-tickets-645968117027?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Invert the order! Government's role in shaping a science superpower
Join us on 18 May to hear James Phillips, former Number 10 S&T adviser, reflect on the power & limits of policy for science. First of a new @RoRInstitute seminar series.
The first of the RoRI-hosted virtual symposia for #Metascience2023 is now underway—on Replication in the Humanities. Join us for one of the other sessions coming up on 28 April & 2/3/4 May: https://metascience.info/virtual-symposia/
“If there is a China strategy, nobody knows what it is.” Hannah Devlin on the record 1104 Chinese researchers & students barred from the UK in 2022 (up from 128 in 2020) https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/15/1100-scientists-and-students-barred-from-uk-amid-china-crackdown
If you prefer your #ResearchEvaluation #ResponsibleResearchAssessment rants in video form rather than written then this video interview with myself and @jameswilsdon might be what you're looking for (link will autoplay):
https://www.futurehe.com.au/expert-opinion/?playlist=11c8b61&video=ab7d976
It was really great to host @jameswilsdon in Perth with COKI last week. In an effort to get down some general thoughts and concerns on Responsible Research Evaluation (and Australia's ranking obsessions) we wrote this for Campus Morning Mail:
https://campusmorningmail.com.au/news/rankings-tail-wags-the-strategy-dog/
#ResponsibleResearchAssessme #rra #era #OpenData #coara #rankings
Is the rankings tail wagging the strategy dog? New piece for Campus Morning Mail by @cameronneylon & me on the uncertain prospects for responsible research assessment in Australia https://campusmorningmail.com.au/news/rankings-tail-wags-the-strategy-dog/
