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Metascience is moving into the mainstream and shaping research worldwide - and at Metascience 2025, we’re bringing together 650+ researchers, funders, policymakers, and innovators for three days of discussion, debate, and exchange of new evidence and ideas. ?? 30 June – 2 July 2025 ?? University College London (UCL), in the heart of London’s Knowledge Quarter This will be our most ambitious gathering yet with an incredible lineup of speakers, including: ?? Lord Vallance, UK Minister for Science & Innovation ?? Maria Leptin, President, European Research Council (ERC) ?? Anna Koivuniemi, Head, Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator ?? Anastasia Gamick, Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer, Convergent Research? ?? John-Arne R?ttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust The full programme will be announced soon, and we can’t wait to share more. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eSVgM7Aw Additional tickets will be released soon, so if you’ve submitted a paper or want to apply for a bursary, rest assured that we are reserving ample space and we will be in touch soon. See you in London! ????

Next Wednesday, RoRI Senior Research Fellow Helen Buckley Woods will be Chairing Day 2 of The Academic and Professional Publishing Conference at The London Book Fair ????

?? New Report: Implementing Narrative CVs in Research Evaluation We're excited to share our latest RoRI Insights report, offering 5 key recommendations to help funders unlock the full potential of Narrative CVs. Narrative CVs have the potential to diversify the scientific workforce, broaden academic values, and foster innovative, societally relevant research ?? Based on our work with RoRI Partners VolkswagenStiftung, Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF and NWO (Dutch Research Council), the report features actionable insights and strategies to create a more holistic and inclusive evaluation process. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e3Aecx6E Special thanks to RoRI researchers Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and Judit Varga, phd for leading the project.

Call for Abstracts! The International Research Culture Conference 2025 #IRCC25 will take place on?Wednesday 17th September at the University of Warwick. We invite all those working in and enabling research in the UK and internationally to share, collaborate and foster conversations about research culture. Information on the call for abstracts and other key information can be found below! #researchculture

The Metascience Alliance will launch at the Metascience 2025 Conference this summer. The new globally distributed cross-sector network will foster collaboration to better understand and improve the research system. Read the initial concept and give feedback ??

Pleased to share a new article (open access) on the topic of research assessment reforms, addressed mostly to the science studies community. It’s an invitation really to think about how our field can contribute to understanding this emerging reform movement within academia. There is a rich tradition of studying the reward system of science, peer review, academic careers, funding evaluation and more in our field. Much important work has been done to study these processes and practices, and to flag dysfunctions. But we have been strangely quiet on initiatives that have recently emerged with the intention of tackling many of these long-standing problems head on (e.g. CoARA, DORA, FOLEC-CLACSO). Here I focus on how the case for reform has been built, and how that case has been countered, taking the example of the Netherlands’ national initiative for reform. Much of the public debate over reform can be understood as resulting from different framings of reform’s meaning and its consequences. Sceptics of reform point to collective action dilemmas (e.g. ‘unless all levels of science systems move in unison, will reform work?’, ‘is collective action going to adversely effect particular groups or entities?’), while reform champions present more optimistic scenarios. The paper provides a conceptual framework for navigating debates and controversies over research assessment reforms, and beyond this, calls on science studies to pay more attention to this growing science reform movement that is taking mainstream so many of our longstanding interests and concerns. https://lnkd.in/e5nBWVgS

RoRI Research Fellow André Brasil was interviewed on the peer review crisis in the Instituto Quest?o de Ciência magazine. Rather than simply proposing financial incentives for peer reviewers, André argues for a systemic shift in how academic contributions are valued. He suggests that peer review itself should be recognized as a citable academic output, with a DOI and formal acknowledgment - ensuring that researchers are incentivized to conduct rigorous and transparent reviews without turning it into a commercialized service. You can find the original article here: https://lnkd.in/ej6ycfYf

"Recent developments in the United States and other countries to?cut critical funding?and programs for research and education pose a significant risk of disrupting the global research ecosystem and access to it", write Invest in Open Infrastructure. Sign the statement supporting open research infrastructure ??

?? The Call for Proposals deadline has been extended! You now have an extra week to submit. Proposals are due by 23:59 GMT on Friday, 14 February. We are accepting proposals for virtual pre-conference symposia, in-person panel sessions, and talks or posters on any topic related to metascience. If there’s anything you think this community should be thinking and talking about, please submit a proposal! Full details here: https://lnkd.in/eUvQkWbK

We're delighted to welcome British Academy International Fellow Dr Similo Ngwenya to the RoRI team! Similo was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the?Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST)?at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She will now be based at RoRI and UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) for two years. One of?only 12 International Fellowships to be awarded by The British Academy in 2024, Similo will undertake metascientific research to explore and analyse the?changing landscape, impacts and interdependencies of SHAPE research in Southern Africa. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ecJueH9G