Fun and less fun funding: the experiential affordances of research grant conditions

Andreas Kjær Stage*, Ea Høg Utoft

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

The conditions of mainstream research funding constrain risky, novel research. However, alternative grants are emerging. We study grantees of a double-blinded funding scheme targeting risky, novel research: The Villum Experiment (VE). Without prompting, scientists juxtaposed the experience of performing research under these conditions with that of performing research funded by mainstream grants: fun and less fun. The conditions of VE felt less intrusive and appealed to their self-perceptions and idealized views of scientific work, which shaped how they conducted the funded research. This paper makes three contributions: (1) it reaffirms that how researchers experience grant conditions affects whether a scheme affords what it intends, (2) it highlights that the affordances of research funding are relative to other concurrent funding options, and (3) it shows that small, more broadly allocatable grants can afford scientists a protected space for autonomous research, usually associated with elusive tenure positions or European Research Council (ERC) grants.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftScience and Public Policy
Vol/bind50
Nummer6
Sider (fra-til)1091-1102
Antal sider12
ISSN0302-3427
DOI
StatusUdgivet - dec. 2023

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