The ESF Member Organisation Forum on Peer Review organised an international workshop entitled “Peer Review: future challenges for research funding and performing organisations in selecting research excellence”which was organised in Brussels on 6 December 2011.
Its main objective was to discuss key issues and challenges in Peer Review common to research funding and performing organisations in the global landscape. The conference also provided an opportunity to present and discuss the European Peer Review Guide (http://www.esf.org/activities/mo-fora/peer-review.html).
It focused on the following 4 topics addressed by international speakers as listed below:
- Peer Review of Pluridisciplinary Research
- Use of Bibliometrics in Peer Review
- Quality assurance in Peer Review
- Defining and Measuring Broader Impact
For more details please download the agenda and the list of participants
Presentation of the ESF Member Organisation Forum and the European Peer Review Guide pillars of good practice by Laura Marin
Broader Impact
Presentation by Moderator: Alan Cross, European Commission
Broader impact and the upcoming HORIZON2020 programme by Alan Cross, European Commission
Broader impacts and the accountability of science by Robert Frodeman, University of Northern Texas, USA
Evaluating the broader impact in EU framework programmes: experiences from FP6 and FP7 by Manfred Horvat, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Wrap-up by Rapporteur Jimmy-Bruun Felthaus, European Commission
Quality assurance
Introduction by Moderator Jonas Björck
Challenges to quality assurance: the problem of bias by David Shatz, Yeshiva University, USA
Gender observations of the evaluation process - what gender patterns can be found and how can they be fed to the organisation by Johanna Andersson, Chalmers University, Sweden
Quality assurance in peer review by Anne-Marie Coriat, Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
Conclusion by Rapporteur Risto Vilkko
Use of Bibliometrics
Introduction by Moderator Valerio Vercesi
Use of bibliometrics in peer review by Gunnar Sivertsen, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Norway
Research policy and funding mechanism in Korea: focusing on bibliometrics and peer review by Jung Cheol Shin, Seoul national University, South Korea
Bibliometrics in China by Ping Zhou, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, China
It's not how you measure - it's what you measure by Fiona Wood, University of New England, Australia
Conclusion by Rapporteur Thomas Zimmermann
Pluridisciplinarity
Introduction by Moderator Catherine Kistner
Peer review and interdisciplinarity research at the ERC by Monique Smaihi, European Research Council Executive Agency
Research Funding and peer review system in JSPS by Yozo Fujino, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
Approaches and Challenges for the multidisciplinary evaluation by Paul Sérgio Lacerda Beirão, Director of Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e da Saúde, Brazil
Wrap-up by Rapporteur Stephen Simpson
