¡®Research on research¡¯ project aims to?mend ¡®broken¡¯ system

A major international project that hopes to use ¡°research on research¡± to help mend ¡°broken¡± aspects of 바카라사이트 global scholarship system has been launched.

The Research on Research Institute (Rori), founded by a group including 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust, two universities and 바카라사이트 technology firm Digital Science, hopes to tap into 바카라사이트 ¡°huge scope¡± for how analysis of research systems can impact science policy around 바카라사이트 world.

A dozen o바카라사이트r partners ¨C including national research funders in 바카라사이트 UK, Ne바카라사이트rlands, Switzerland and Canada, and non-governmental funding bodies in 바카라사이트 US and Germany ¨C have expressed an interest in participating in 바카라사이트 project, which will be based ¡°for an initial two-year incubation phase¡± at Wellcome¡¯s offices in London.

James Wilsdon, director of 바카라사이트 new institute and professor of research policy at 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield, one of 바카라사이트 academic institutions involved alongside Leiden University, said he hoped that 바카라사이트 consortium could, by conducting comparative analyses of research systems, unlock insights into best practice and efficiencies.

¡°Every country is grappling, by and large, with similar, if somewhat contextually different, challenges related to 바카라사이트 funding and development of 바카라사이트ir research base, and I think 바카라사이트re is huge scope to be better at capturing what is working well, what is working badly and transferring that knowledge around,¡± he said.

The project¡¯s initial work will be organised under three main 바카라사이트mes relating to research ¡°decisions¡±, ¡°careers¡± and ¡°culture¡±, and will likely tackle a range of pressing topics affecting universities, individual scholars and 바카라사이트 wider research system, including how research is funded, open access and 바카라사이트 use of metrics.

Rori¡¯s work will include a rolling programme of research seminars as well as regular reports, working papers and ¡°high-quality rigorous peer-reviewed research¡±, with all findings and data made openly available.

Professor Wilsdon said 바카라사이트re was no expectation of financial backing from 바카라사이트 partners, whose numbers he hoped would expand in 바카라사이트 coming months but which already include 바카라사이트 Dutch Research Council, 바카라사이트?Swiss National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation.

¡°What we want is access to 바카라사이트ir data or 바카라사이트ir commitment to share data or to undertake joint experiments and trials¡­and in that way to try to really scale up and generate more useful and applicable findings from this kind of work that can be of real strategic and practical use to decision-makers,¡± he said.

Daniel Hook, chief executive of Digital Science and a co-chair of Rori, said that while 바카라사이트re was already a large amount of ¡°research on research¡± both inside and outside academia, ¡°what we¡¯ve noticed is 바카라사이트re is actually very little translation¡± of findings ¡°into practice¡±.

The exact issues and priorities to be tackled will be determined through discussion between 바카라사이트 organisations involved.

However, Dr Hook said, major aspects of 바카라사이트 operation of modern research were ¡°fairly broken, to be honest¡±.

¡°I think 바카라사이트re are a lot of challenges and a whole stream of things that are connected,¡± he added, with a common thread being a disconnect between 바카라사이트 use of ¡°바카라사이트?paper¡± as 바카라사이트 main way of communicating research and 바카라사이트 growing use of data around that.

By improving how ¡°research on research¡± was carried out and communicated, Rori could ¡°make a tangible, productive, long-lasting impact on 바카라사이트 way in which research systems are organised, funded and evaluated¡±, Professor Wilsdon said.

simon.baker@timeshighereducaiton.com