Events

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Upcoming

ECR Research on Research Seminar Series (ECR RoRSS)

1 Mar – 31 Dec 2026

We’re launching a new series of online talks by early career researchers (ECRs) on metascience / research on research topics (in their broadest senses). Each talk could be focused on completed research you want to share, work in progress you want to brainstorm with colleagues, or ideas for advancing metascience or future research you’d like […]

Past and Future of Research Funding: From Beginnings to New Developments

17 Jun 2026, 12pm–1pm

June 17 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Details Date: June 17 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Website: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3XO13zn1Ts-HHidin4MFTw Wednesday 17 June 2026 13:00 (CEST) / 12:00 (BST) / 07:00 (EDT) Finn Luebber, Universität Lübeck, Germany About the seminar Institutionally organized research funding is a rather new development that has its roots in the […]

Distributed Peer Review: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group

17 Jun 2026, 3pm–4pm

June 17 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Details Date: June 17 Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm This session of the AFIRE Experimental Funders Group will dive into Distributed Peer Review (DPR) – a reciprocal model where applicants themselves participate in the review process. The AFIRE Experimental Funders Group series provides a dedicated space […]

Desk Rejection: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group

14 Oct 2026, 3pm–4pm

October 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Details Date: October 14 Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm This session of the AFIRE Experimental Funders Group will dive into Desk Rejection, the practice whereby staff at a funding agency screen applications early in the process and remove those that are unlikely to succeed, without sending […]

‘Lottery First’ methods: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group

16 Dec 2026, 8am–9am

December 16 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Details Date: December 16 Time: 8:00 am – 9:00 am This session of the AFIRE Experimental Funders Group will dive into ‘Lottery First’ methods, exploring the idea of allocating research grants where random selection replaces part of the traditional ranking process. The AFIRE Experimental Funders Group series […]

Past events

Utility of LLMs in identifying and assessing academic genres

3 Dec 2024, 1pm–2:30pm

December 3, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Details Date: December 3, 2024 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm The European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH) in partnership with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) is proud to present the next webinar in its series on research evaluation as it is practiced across […]

Introducing MetaROR: A new peer review platform for metaresearch

26 Nov 2024, 3pm–4:30pm

November 26, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) are launching the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform. MetaROR will facilitate open peer review of articles in the field of metaresearch, and will operate according to a publish-review-curate model. This model will accelerate the communication of scholarly work since peer […]

Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) in classification of Social Sciences and Humanities research and societal impact

11 Nov 2024, 1pm–2:30pm

November 11, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm The European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH) in partnership with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) is proud to present the next webinar in its series on research evaluation as it is practiced across disciplines and countries. We are opening a new thematic line on […]

Advancing Open Research through Metascience

2 Oct 2024, 4pm–5:30pm

October 2, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm This ICOR meeting focused on the growing significance of metascience for improving scientific research. As metascience becomes a recognised practice for evaluating scientific evidence and identifying potential biases, it’s important for stakeholders from different regions to collaborate on metascience projects and share expertise and resources that […]

Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis

17 Nov 2023, 4pm–5:30pm

November 17, 2023 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Christen A. Smith (The Cite Black Women Collective) The politics of citation are often considered a purely academic, bibliographic exercise. However, the practice of citation is a keenly political one that is imbricated with race and gender politics. In this talk, we explore the politics of […]

The emerging shape of REF 2028

5 Jul 2023, 11:30am–12:30pm

July 5, 2023 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Digesting, debating and delivering the outcomes of the UK’s Future of Research Assessment Programme Since 1986, UK universities have lived through eight cycles of national research assessment. Over that time, the purposes and methods of assessment have evolved and become more complex. The last Research Excellence […]

Can AI predict research impacts?

15 Jun 2023, 6pm–7:30pm

June 15, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm The success or failure of medical research is judged by patient outcomes far downstream of the strategic decisions that initiate it. Optimising translational impact therefore relies on long range forecasting, for which no established framework exists. The evaluation of research proposals by expert appraisal of their […]

Invert the order! Government’s role in shaping a science superpower

18 May 2023, 6pm–7pm

May 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm What is required for the UK to stay at the cutting edge of science and technology and make harnessing its benefits our national purpose? And what role does the government have in that? Former special adviser on Science & Technology to the UK Prime Minister, James […]