Thanks for responding. I generally agree! I also struggle to pick out an obvious highest priority choice. Two I liked were:
Identify the most significant institutions for shaping global research policy and investigate how their decisions are made, the size of their budgets and their priority areas. This should include a survey of previous research on science policy development (e.g. by SPRU).
Investigate the implementation of previous research policies to understand how the wording of policy documents translate into specific funding allocation, research project proposals, and research results and publications.
I also like the idea of more reviews to ‘legitimate’ new lines of research—this is something I have often tried to do in my own research.
I think that some sort of community building might be one of the highest ROI activities that is being missed. The possible projects and their impacts are all going to be heavily mediated by the capacity of the community/available human capital. One reason why I like seeing these posts and the ongoing Slack conversations etc!
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Thanks for responding. I generally agree! I also struggle to pick out an obvious highest priority choice. Two I liked were:
Identify the most significant institutions for shaping global research policy and investigate how their decisions are made, the size of their budgets and their priority areas. This should include a survey of previous research on science policy development (e.g. by SPRU).
Investigate the implementation of previous research policies to understand how the wording of policy documents translate into specific funding allocation, research project proposals, and research results and publications.
I also like the idea of more reviews to ‘legitimate’ new lines of research—this is something I have often tried to do in my own research.
I think that some sort of community building might be one of the highest ROI activities that is being missed. The possible projects and their impacts are all going to be heavily mediated by the capacity of the community/available human capital. One reason why I like seeing these posts and the ongoing Slack conversations etc!