Liz Allen recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Kent Business School – the subject was whether metrics or peer review are the best tools to support research assessment. In this post, she looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
We hear from Phil Ward, Deputy Director of Research Services at the University of Kent, about how research quality is assessed in the UK including some of the problems with this and what alternatives there are to the norm
So, you have a great idea for a research project. Now you need funding to make it happen. But how? Where? From whom? Here, João Peres and Tiago Barros share their experiences of applying for research funding in order to help others embarking on the same journey.
Over the past decade, there has been a massive drive to improve the efficiency, and understand the impact, of research and Researchfish® was born from this. Developed by the UK’s Medical Research Council, and quickly adopted by all the UK Research Councils and a number of other major funding agencies and institutions across the world, Researchfish today provides the world’s most commonly used grant output and impact tracking platform. F1000Prime has now partnered with Researchfish to help track the impact of research outputs.
Getting a new research grant is hard. You have to write a proposal about things you haven’t even done yet, and convince a panel that your work is important and likely to succeed. And because you haven’t done the work yet (because you need grant money first) you don’t have published articles to support your…
On 22nd April this year, four distinguished experts — F1000Prime International Advisory Board Member Bruce Alberts of the University of California, San Francisco, Marc W. Kirschner of Harvard Medical School, Shirley Tilghman of Princeton University, and Harold Varmus of the National Cancer Institute — issued a call to action. Their perspective article, ‘Rescuing US biomedical…
Following yesterday’s UK budget announcement by Chancellor George Osborne, we look at the implications for UK life scientists and those thinking of embarking on a PhD.
Over the past months, we’ve been discussing the publication of negative results, and some of the obstacles that prevent people from publishing them. While we’re happy to publish papers based on negative results, not everyone can find the time to write them up. A Dutch funding agency is now giving out grants specifically to fund…
(This is part 4 of a series of posts featuring speakers from “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks about peer review, data sharing, and open access. Previously: Lawrence Kane on rapid publication, Keith Flaherty on publishing negative results , Steven Hyman on sharing datasets, Sue Griffin on transparent peer review) Gary…
There are some interesting quotes from the UK’s University and Science Minister David Willetts in an article on science policy from the Times Higher Education (THE). Mr Willetts has been seeking to allay researchers’ ‘common anxieties,’ particularly those relating to the measurement of ‘impact.’ The UK Government hands out money to its higher education funding…
