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Open AccessStrengthening the incentives for responsible research practices in Australian health and medical research funding
Australian health and medical research funders support substantial research efforts, and incentives within grant funding schemes influence researcher behaviour. We aimed to determine to what extent Australian ...
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Open AccessThe acceptability of using a lottery to allocate research funding: a survey of applicants
The Health Research Council of New Zealand is the first major government funding agency to use a lottery to allocate research funding for their Explorer Grant scheme. This is a somewhat controversial approach ...
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Open Access‘Are you siding with a personality or the grant proposal?’: observations on how peer review panels function
In Australia, the peer review process for competitive funding is usually conducted by a peer review group in conjunction with prior assessment from external assessors. This process is quite mysterious to those...