Post #1278675
2025-10-05 18:44 UTC
How randomisation has changed the British Academy’s approach to research funding
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/04/16/how-randomisation-has-changed-the-british-academys-approach-to-research-funding/
Another funding org exploring randomization of awards among proposal exceeding a certain threshold.
The pool of applicants and recipients was more diverse after the policy change 1/
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@ingorohlfing@mastodon.social 2025-10-05 18:45
I guess the mechanism is not clear. Could be randomization levels the playing field and diversifies pool of recipients, or that more researchers feel encouraged to submit who would have also got funded without randomization. In either case, randomization seems to have a diversifying effect 2/