Challenges in research assessment: a funder's view
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Challenges in Research Assessment:
A funder’s view
Challenges in Research Assessment:
A funder’s view (ish)
Wellcome Trust
Spend approximately £700 million on research per year on biomedicine & societal context
Wide range of funding schemes supporting people, places, teams, innovation
Funders’ challenge part 1: who & what to fund?
Person - track record; potential
Idea – fit with strategic focus? excellent? new thinking?
Environment/place
Team/collaborators
who & what to fund: toolkit
Challenge of authorship
Funders’ challenge part 2: did we make right decision?
Understanding ‘scientific’ progress & impact
Should we fund further?
Did it help to achieve organisation’s goals & strategy?
did we make right decision: toolkit
Markers of research progress & impact (qualitative & quantitative)
Measure of use & re-use
Use of proxies
Challenge of impact
Impact is defined as ‘any effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia’HEFCE 2014
Impact is defined as ‘any effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia’HEFCE 2014
Challenge of impact
do we measure what counts or count what we can measure?
o Building infrastructure to provide ‘evidence’ & insight
Automated ‘evidence’ gathering
System connectors
Standards & definitions
o Ability to consider wider range of research contributions & products: ‘beyond authorship’
o Research on research (‘science of science’)
Steps towards more greater insight …