We are delighted to join RoRI as Core Partners.
We share the view that responsive, impactful, and fair research is essential to tackling the unprecedented global challenges of our time. SHAPE research drives economic growth, improves wellbeing, and enhances understanding of people and societies.
In our latest Substack, RoRI's @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy takes on the question: is there a point where the effort spent applying for and reviewing grants outweighs the value of the funding itself?
Read the piece here: researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/the-point-...
We are pleased to announce two new Core Partners: ZonMw, the Dutch Organisation for knowledge and innovation in health and well-being, and @britishacademy.bsky.social, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences: researchonresearch.org/rori-welcome...
26.02.2026 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Looking forward to lots of lively metascience discussion on the new @rorinstitute.bsky.social substack. Read my inaugural post to find out what we’re up to.
24.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
RoRI is now on Substack! With Go Meta!, we’re joining the growing metascience conversation with essays, reflections & provocations on how research is funded and evaluated. Our first post, by @scurry.bsky.social, reflects on his journey into metascience: open.substack.com/pub/research...
24.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
We’ve started work on a new project: PATHWAYS – Advancing Research on Research use to enhance positive impact 🧩
Funders want research to make a difference, but how exactly does research travel from publication to use to impact? Read more: researchonresearch.org/project/path...
📢 New RoRI Working Paper: Does targeted research funding reshape research landscapes?
New RoRI evidence from Norway and Switzerland suggests shifts in research topics are gradual - and similar under both targeted and non-targeted funding: researchonresearch.org/does-targete...
RoRI’s Seunghyun Lee and @jameswilsdon.bsky.social joined discussions at the OECD Global Science Forum in Paris on rethinking research assessment & incentives.
Assessment reform is moving to the centre of research policy debates; read the full write-up here: researchonresearch.org/rethinking-r...
We’re co-organising a Eu-SPRI Forum 2026 track on how research funding instruments support science and innovation policy: their rationales, design and effects.
See full details here: euspri2026.webs.upv.es/index.php/ca...
Submission deadline: 16 February 2026
The ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council is doubling down on distributed peer review (DPR).
In new applicant-led pilots launching in 2026, ESRC will use DPR for its new Connect scheme, building on earlier UKRI pilots that “worked really well”: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
MetaROR’s approach to Crossref DOI registration
Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach
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Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.
New country added to the Atlas of Assessment: Slovakia 🇸🇰: researchonresearch.org/observatory/...
RoRI's Atlas of Assessment brings together curated, quality-assured information on how research is assessed and funded across countries.
In this new video, RoRI's Helen Buckley Woods and @jameswilsdon.bsky.social introduce metascience, explaining why it brings together researchers, funders, policymakers and infrastructure providers: youtu.be/P_xv4IPveFw?...
02.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Behind the Scenes" is a new online seminar series on how research papers actually get made: from early ideas and methods to revisions and publication.
Next up: Nihar Shah on peer review (Wed 4 Feb).
More info: www.bts-seminar.net
📢 Join RoRI's @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy on 22 Jan for a discussion on how AI is being used in research funding.
Tom will share insights from funders’ experiences & discuss principles for making progress in this fast-evolving area.
Register here: zonmw.webinargeek.com/funder-exper...
In a new @wonkhe.bsky.social piece, RoRI fellows Anna Butters and @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy explore distributed peer review - and what it can (and can’t) fix: wonkhe.com/blogs/a-new-...
18.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
NEW on Wonkhe: Tom Stafford and Anna Butters show that an alternative approach to funding evaluation is possible – its name is distributed peer review buff.ly/XVwMKu0
18.12.2025 07:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
⚙️ New RoRI paper: AI and Reviewer Matching in Research Funding
How are funders using AI to match grant applications with reviewers? Three case studies from SNSF, Fundación “la Caixa”, and NWO explore real-world approaches and trade-offs: tinyurl.com/y8a6vfdn
Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.
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📆 Mark your calendars! On January 13, our colleagues Judit Varga and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner will give a webinar on how narrative CVs reshape research assessment in practice. Sign up with the link below 👇
16.12.2025 13:32 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Upcoming RoRI webinar: Do Narrative CVs really change research evaluation?
Join us on 13 January as we discuss new data from funding panels at major European funders: tinyurl.com/ms7bkcd9
Why do research projects sometimes end up somewhere unexpected?
In a new blog post, RoRI research fellow Josie Coburn shares findings from 21 interviews with biomedical scientists: researchonresearch.org/why-research...
How can science advice remain effective when misinformation spreads rapidly and expertise is increasingly contested?
Last week, we explored this in a seminar on communicating science advice in the age of populism, co-hosted by RoRI, UCL STEaPP, and Wellcome: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20H...
Other key measures:
🔹 £6m second round of Metascience Research Grants (launching Feb 2026)
🔹 UKRI rolling out Distributed Peer Review across all research councils
🔹 A National AI in Research Survey, led by the UK Metascience Unit
Read more: researchonresearch.org/uk-governmen...
🇬🇧 Big news for UK metascience: the government is trebling the UK Metascience Unit’s budget to £49m.
"This represents a resounding vote of confidence in the value and opportunities of metascience to improve the way the UK funds, manages and evaluates research", says RoRI's @jameswilsdon.bsky.social
RoRI joined colleagues in Pisa to explore stronger coordination across publishing and research assessment reform: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
04.12.2025 15:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧑🔬📰🧑💻🗞 More hearing and including; sticking to and digging into first-hand data over PR; transparent and persistent relationship-building; and not painting the public as The Problem.
Iinsightful ensemble @rorinstitute.bsky.social panel on scicomm vis-a-vis populism, at the @wellcometrust.bsky.social.
👀Interesting to see the budget earlier this week confirming funding for @ukri.org trial of #DistributedPeerReview, we featured a post from @rorinstitute.bsky.social discussing their recent work on the subject back in September 👇
28.11.2025 09:54 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@metaror.bsky.social is now 1 year old 🎉
In our first year: 28 articles evaluated, 59 expert reviewers, most reviews published ahead of target, 9 partner journals, and growing visibility across conferences & media.
A strong start for community-owned, open peer review: metaror.org/metaror-turn...
The panel at today’s RoRi and STEaPP seminar at Wellcome on ‘science in a populist age’.
UCL’s @geoffmulgan.bsky.social kicks off tonight’s seminar on ‘Science in a populist age’ at @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with a stellar line-up inc @helenpearson.bsky.social @senseaboutsci.bsky.social @alokjha.bsky.social. We’ll post the video online soon. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-ad...
01.12.2025 17:21 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0