New Frontiers for Research on Global Challenge Research
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Global Challenge Research: Opportunities, politics and pitfalls. Jude Fransman, Co-Convenor, Rethinking Research Collaborative
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New Frontiers for Research on Global Challenge Research
- 1. @judefransmanNew Frontiers for Research on Research Wellcome Collection 30th September 2019 Global Challenge Research Opportunities, politics and pitfalls
- 2. Global Challenge Research New approaches to research that are: • Complex • Collaborative • Adaptive • What is the relationship between research excellence and societal impact? Who sets research agendas? • What types of research capacity is needed (and where) and how can this be strengthened? • What is the relationship between global challenges and global development?
- 3. Effectiveness to Equity Normative E.g. ‘knowledge democracy’ or ‘cognitive justice’ – ‘decolonizing research’ Instrumental E.g. ‘solution-focused’ research to ensure ‘real world impact’ or expansion of disciplinary knowledge Statutory E.g. ODA-compliance And looking forward to ecological research…?
- 4. Global distributions and representations of research
- 5. 5 opportunities for RoRI 1. Interrogating the politics and modalities of global challenge research funding 2. Mapping participation (Who? Where? How? When? With what support?) 3. Expanding the reach (inclusivity and diversity) of scientometrics 4. Looking beyond the metrics to capture hidden outputs, practices, systems and agendas 5. Envisioning global research futures
Editor's Notes
- Introduce RRC: a network of networks of academics, civil society organisations and research brokers and capacity providers committed to working together to rethink research systems and the implications for trans-national collaboration in the context of new global challenges.
- Large-scale intractable social and environmental challenges such as the climate crisis, health pandemics and migration demand new approaches to research that are complex, collaborative and adaptive. This poses questions such as: What is the relationship between research excellence and societal impact? Who sets research agendas? What types of research capacity is needed (and where) and how can this be strengthened? What is the relationship between global challenges and global development? Is there a social justice agenda and what does this mean for traditional approaches to research?
- This final question marks a shift in the discourse around global challenge research from an effectiveness agenda to an equity agenda. This is partly the result of increased investment by several countries and especially the UK of their overseas development assistance (ODA) budgets into academic research with implications for rethinking research impact to ensure that funds are untied and compliant with OECD standards for aid. This equity agenda is therefore grounded in three interrelated but competing rationales: Normative Instrumental Statutory It is further complicated by an emerging ecological agenda, which calls into question the carbon footprint of research with implications for mobility. This reaffirms the importance of a decentralized global research system with agendas set and expertise and capacity recognized and strengthened in the global South.
- However, despite the discursive shift to an equity agenda, the geo-political distribution of knowledge resources remains profoundly inequitable. This map is based on citation data from Web of Science. It suggest an inequitable global distribution of research not just in terms of access to resources and capacity but also, crucially, in the representation of research through scientometrics which ignores: Hidden research activity (unpublished in registered journals) including that conducted in different languages, by indigenous or non-conventional universities or by think tanks and civil society organisations Inequities in attribution (such as research conducted in the global South being published in North) Bias – e.g. an extensive implicit association assessment conducted by Imperial reveals bias in research evaluation against research produced in low income countries. This raises 2 key challenges for RoRI: i.) how to address the inequitable geo-political distribution of research agendas/resources/infrastructures? Ii.), how to address inequitable representation of research perpetuated by bibliometrics?
- Including implications of use of ODA funds for research as well as different models of trans-national research funding & governance Developing mapping systems populated with data from the RoRI Funders Lab and other sources to address questions such as: Which strategic areas are invested in? Where are funds spent? Who participates in decision-making from agenda-setting to peer-review and evaluation and from which disciplines, countries and sectors? Building on the work of CWTS and others in responsible metrics Using ethnographic and participatory methods to reveal hidden research practices – both invisible research conducted by non-traditional academic actors and unattributed research. Drawing on anticipation studies and futures techniques from forecasting and scenario mapping to creative methodologies (cf. Uni of York and Leeds and ActionAid) to envisioning the types of research system necessary to respond to and tackle new global challenges.
- RRC and UNESCO chair: Community-Based and practitioner-generated research and the politics of research collaboration IDRC – RQ+: holistic and flexible approach to evaluating research quality that encompasses three components: accepting a multi-dimensional view of quality; accounting for context; and a judgement of quality that is underpinned by empirical evidence and not just opinion. GDN and AAS: Analysis/capacity strengthening of research systems in gS Convivial thinking: Decolonial approach to knowledge for global development.