THE RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS - LEARNING FROM FAILURE
THE RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS - LEARNING FROM FAILURE
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DOI：
10.1007/bf00138615
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发表时间：
1992-07-01
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5
通讯作者：
HARMAN, G
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作者：
WOOD, FQ;MEEK, VL;HARMAN, G
对联邦政府研究基金的竞争日益激烈，导致大量好项目得不到资助。这种情况在不久的将来不太可能改变，并在许多依赖外部资金进行研究的人中产生了不确定性和挫折感。在这种情况下，特别重要的是，联邦政府资助机构的目标得到有效沟通，他们建立的分配研究资金的程序被学术研究界视为可信的。本文报道了一项调查的结果，调查的研究补助金的过程中，从1991年大的澳大利亚研究理事会赠款的四所大学的申请失败的角度来看。研究结果指出，理事会所采用的同侪评审机制在运作上有多项局限，并质疑研究局向获提名负责评审研究建议的人士提供的意见和指示是否足够。调查结果还提出了关于如何编制外部评估员名单以及这些外部评估员后来如何与个人申请相匹配的问题。
Increasing competition for federal government research funds has resulted in a large number of good projects not being funded. This situation is unlikely to change in the near future and has generated uncertainty and frustration amongst many who are dependent on external funding for their research. In this context it is particularly important that the aims of federal government funding agencies are communicated effectively and that the procedures they establish to allocate research funds are seen as credible by the academic research community. This article reports the results of a survey which investigated the research grant process from the point of view of unsuccessful applicants from four universities for large 1991 initial Australian Research Council grants. The findings identify a number of limitations in the operations of the peer review mechanism as used by this Council and question the adequacy of the advice and instructions provided by the ARC to those nominated to review research proposals. The findings also raise questions concerning how the lists of external assessors are compiled as well as how these external assessors are later matched with individual applications.