Academia

FERN-UK aims to bring together French researchers based in the United Kingdom in order to support Franco-British research collaborations in universities or private sectors, to provide support for exchanges of graduate students and to create a dynamic of information and discussion within the community. This network is extended to British Francophile scientists who wish to participate.

Independent evaluations of grant applications by subject experts are an important part of the peer-review system. However, little is …

This resource contains a micro-learning activity which you can use to promote critical reflection around peer-reviewing.

While research has revealed startling inconsistencies and lack of agreement in reviewers’ evaluations of grant proposals (Pier et al., …

Applying Social Judgment Theory to better understand what peer reviewers pay attention to when evaluating fellowship grant proposals.

In a recent commentary, IJzerman, Lewis and colleagues argue that psychological science is not yet a crisis-ready discipline. They wrote this commentary in response to another recent commentary by Van Bavel et al.

How good is your research? How do you reflect on the quality of your outputs and aim to develop your skills as a researcher? In this post I use the Research Excellence Framework as a basis for discussing what research excellence may look like as well as providing tips to increase the quality of your research.

How to create a reproducible literature search for your research projects.

This research programme is funded by the Wellcome Trust Research on Research Awards (2019-2022) and aims to better understand how peer reviewers evaluate research proposals in grant funding applications.

This post showcases a video of the keynote address by Professor Daniel Kahneman shot during the 23rd Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) conference.