Dalmeet Singh Chawla
The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding
Earlier this month, the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for humanities and social sciences, introduced a lottery...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 8, 2022
- 1 min
Swiss funder unveils new CV format to make grant evaluation fairer
Switzerland’s main research funder is set to roll out a ‘narrative’ CV format for grant applications this year, as part of a move to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8, 2022
- 1 min
Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators
The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Q&A: Australia’s chief scientist proposes a centralized national plan for open access
Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Australian institutions lag behind on open access adoption
Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
How can institutions and funders help to police questionable research practices?
A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Chemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate
British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 9, 2021
- 1 min
Scientists at odds on Utrecht University reforms to hiring and promotion criteria
Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 6, 2021
- 1 min
Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
Physicists guardedly optimistic about UK’s new DARPA-like funding agency
Physicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 4, 2021
- 1 min
Details on science funding scarce in latest UK budget
Experts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022
The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
UK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’
A recent hack of systems of the umbrella grant funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has rattled researchers but details of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention
Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 13, 2020
- 1 min
Big increase in research funding promised for UK
The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 14, 2020
- 1 min
They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery
A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review
Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 15, 2019
- 1 min
Thousands of grant peer reviewers share concerns in global survey
Researchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
Research on research gains steam
The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent...
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