Each quarter, DORA holds two Community of Practice (CoP) meetings for research funding organizations. One…
Funder discussion groups
Changing the narrative: considering common principles for the use of narrative CVs in grant evaluation
Narrative CVs have become a potential avenue to recognize the broad range of a researcher’s…
Cross-funder action to improve the assessment of researchers for grant funding
Funding organizations signal what is valued within research ecosystems by defining the criteria upon which…
Navigating system biases in decision-making
Bias influences the decisions that impact academic careers, from peer review and publication to hiring…
Updates on Recognizing and Supporting Indigenous Research from New Zealand and Australia
“When quantitative measures have an outsized impact on how people are rewarded, it can increase…
Findings from the Health Research Board Ireland on the Implementation of a Narrative CV
Narrative CV formats have been implemented by multiple research funding organizations, such as the Dutch…
Luxembourg National Research Fund develops an action plan for responsible research assessment
Research culture is influenced by the ways in which research and researchers are assessed. For…
Science Foundation Ireland takes an iterative approach to develop a narrative CV
The Dutch Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, Swiss National Science Foundation, and UKRI are all experimenting with narrative CV formats as part of their evaluation of grant proposals. At DORA’s virtual funder discussion on September 23, 2020, Rochelle Fritch and Laura Mackey presented Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) ongoing work to develop a narrative CV format for its funding mechanisms.
Updates from Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
As part of DORA’s effort to increase communication about innovative policies and practices for assessing research, we expanded the funder discussion series by hosting our first virtual meeting for the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
Updates from Research England and the Open Research Funders Group
Communication is an important mechanism to increase the uptake of responsible research assessment practices at universities and funding agencies. To help, DORA brings together public and private research funders for a virtual meeting each quarter to discuss new policies, practices, and pilot experiments for assessing research. On Thursday, June 25, 2020, Claire Fraser, senior policy advisor at Research England and Greg Tananbaum, director of the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG), provided updates on their latest efforts to improve research assessment.