New RoRI Working Paper examines the bureaucratic burdens of research funding
2 Jun 2026
A new review evaluates global efforts to reduce grant bureaucracy
2 Jun 2026
A new review evaluates global efforts to reduce grant bureaucracy
21 May 2026
RoRI is delighted to have Namibia’s National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) join us on two project initiatives. As Namibia’s lead agency for advancing science, technology, and innovation (STI), NCRST coordinates and promotes research across the country to drive national development and build an equitable research ecosystem. At the 14th Annual Meeting of […]
19 May 2026
The initiative was introduced at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) in Bangkok
11 May 2026
New RoRI Working Paper explores the complexities of monitoring research culture and environment
27 Apr 2026
RoRI’s James Wilsdon and UCL’s Geraint Rees argue in Nature that the rise of agentic AI threatens to collapse traditional research funding systems
15 Apr 2026
RoRI's James Wilsdon shares insights on the global metascience surge at Tokyo metascience meetup
26 Feb 2026
We are pleased to announce two new Core Partners: ZonMw, the Dutch Organisation for knowledge and innovation in health, healthcare and well-being; and The British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. This brings the tally of RoRI’s Core Partners to 21 organisations across 13 countries. RoRI’s work programme is shaped […]
23 Feb 2026
RoRI has begun work on a new project in partnership with the Impact Funders Forum
16 Feb 2026
New evidence from Research Council Norway (RCN) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
11 Feb 2026
RoRI Research Fellow Seunghyun Lee attended the OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) in Paris with RoRI’s Executive Director, James Wilsdon
29 Jan 2026
Metascience explained: research on research, open science and AI
17 Dec 2025
Matthew Lucas (on left) with James Wilsdon, Nosisa Dube and other RoRI colleagues in Hannover, Germany for the December 2023 RoRI Consortium Meeting We are pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Lucas as RoRI’s new Co-Chair, and to thank Gert Balling as he comes to the end of his term in the role. Matthew […]
2 May 2024
RoRI’s Director James Wilsdon was in conversation with Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS, Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on today’s research culture and the values needed for today's science
29 Apr 2024
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information has been launched
15 Apr 2024
RoRI joins the new UK National Chapter of CoARA
2 Feb 2024
Reformscape is a new online resource to explore and share examples of how to make hiring, promotion and tenure fairer, more robust and more diverse
31 Jan 2024
Supported by RoRI researchers, the Foundation will run an experiment in parallel to its standard selection of proposals
26 Jan 2024
RoRI announces new AFIRE project, as well as new core partners and members of the core team
24 Jan 2024
RoRI’s partners and researchers met at the Volkswagen Foundation in Germany to exchange ideas and work on our new projects
18 Jan 2024
New report co-authored by RoRI’s James Wilsdon highlights the importance of social science to UK research and innovation
27 Oct 2023
The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) was founded in 2019 by an international group of research funders and researchers with […]