TY - CHAP
T1 - Reframing study of research(er) funding towards configurations and trails
AU - Thomas, Duncan Andrew
AU - Ramos-Vielba, Irene
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Research funding has become complicated in many fields across contemporary science. Changing funding policies, programme and instruments also affect the funding situations of individual researchers, meaning they may now have to engage with more varied funders, funding aims and forms. This situation is underexplored, prompting us to propose two new study frames to address it: researcher funding configurations, and researcher funding trails. A configuration frames all a researcher’s concurrent funding instrument grants within a specified time window. A funding trail maps a researcher’s configurations over their scientific lifetime. These frames can help us study more accurately how funding connects to research(er) direction changes. We argue that without this reframing, we limit our analytical abilities to explore the effectiveness of contemporary research funding policies, programmes, and practices. In our chapter, we define configurations and trails, discuss what they afford analytically, and conclude with some further study considerations and policy implications.
AB - Research funding has become complicated in many fields across contemporary science. Changing funding policies, programme and instruments also affect the funding situations of individual researchers, meaning they may now have to engage with more varied funders, funding aims and forms. This situation is underexplored, prompting us to propose two new study frames to address it: researcher funding configurations, and researcher funding trails. A configuration frames all a researcher’s concurrent funding instrument grants within a specified time window. A funding trail maps a researcher’s configurations over their scientific lifetime. These frames can help us study more accurately how funding connects to research(er) direction changes. We argue that without this reframing, we limit our analytical abilities to explore the effectiveness of contemporary research funding policies, programmes, and practices. In our chapter, we define configurations and trails, discuss what they afford analytically, and conclude with some further study considerations and policy implications.
KW - research funding
KW - researcher funding configurations
KW - researcher funding trails
KW - funding co-use
KW - shaping of research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85161345462&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/uty2v/
DO - https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/uty2v/
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 242
EP - 260
BT - Handbook of Public Funding of Research
A2 - Lepori, Benedetto
A2 - Jongbloed, Ben
A2 - Hicks, Diana
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY - Cheltenham
ER -