AFIRE - RoRI's Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation
Tom Stafford, AFIRE programme lead
22 May 2024
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AFIRE - Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation
t.stafford@sheffield.ac.uk
https://researchonresearch.org/project/a-f-i-r-e/
Aims, to enhance…
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Experiments!
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Forum
Launch Keynotes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DColipQFEo
Stian Westlake, Executive Chair, ESRC (part of UK Research and Innovation) outlined ambitions for the UK government’s Metascience Unit and linked £5 million UKRI and Open Philanthropy funding call;
Hanna Denecke, Head of Funding Team “Exploration” at the Volkswagen Foundation, described their latest experiment with distributed peer review;
Caleb Watney, Co-founder and Co-CEO of the Institute for Progress in Washington DC, previewed a new wave of metascience experiments at the US National Science Foundation.
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Bendiscioli et al. (2022):
The experimental research funder’s handbook (Revised edition, June 2022, ISBN 978-1-7397102-0-0).
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19459328.v2
Support
“Experiments”
trying something new
formal evaluation
rigorous inference
explicit research question(s)
defined target measure(s)
preregistered analysis plan
open reporting
causal inference
Experiments!
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AFIRE - Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation
t.stafford@sheffield.ac.uk
https://researchonresearch.org/project/a-f-i-r-e/
(Reserve slides follow, not for display)
Distributed Peer Review Experiment
Current status:
- reviews underway
- applications numbers up
- applicant attitudes positive about DPR (see graphs)