Back to [[:aaac|AAAC Demographics Start page]] ==== General Data we need (over the last 10 years) ==== * Who is writing the proposals? * PI position: e.g. postdoc, assist. Prof, assoc. Prof, tenured faculty, research faculty, Gender, race/ethnicity, geographical location, size of institution * How many proposals submitted by same PI - broken down by PI category * Number of senior researchers on proposal * per year, per category of PI, per funding requested * Compare success rates of different sorts of proposals * per PI category, per number of senior researchers, per number of proposals submitted in the last 5 years, per funding requested * Years between proposals * cross correlate to success rate, PI category, # of senior researcher * Do younger researchers rise through the ranks (are researcher on proposal and then become PI later)? * Number of years between first appearance as senior researcher on a proposal to PI * What number or fraction of the community is supported by soft money? Nature of community support questions * What number or fraction of the community is supported by research projects/missions? * What number or fraction of the community is support by institutions? * What number or fraction of the community can or does serve as PI? * What number or fraction of the community is part of a smaller groups (1-3) vs larger groups? * Are there other sources of scientific support for the community? * How much of the science support for the community comes through missions or other stable sources relative to competed 3-year proposals? * What fraction of the money for competed research is distributed to various types of institution (labs, universities, centers, industry)? Individual support questions * How many grants of typical size are required to support an individual investigator? * How many sources of support does the typical investigator (PI, CoI, student) rely upon? * How many investigators/students participate in the average proposal? Career questions * How many awards have gone to first-time PIs? * How much of the typical award supports the PI? CoIs? Students? * What is the age (in career) distribution of PIs? Proposers? * What is the age (in career) distribution of the relevant community? Competition Questions * What is the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable success rates? * What factors determine what the acceptable boundary is? (program staff, reviewers, community, fairness, etc.) * Does the success rate/number of proposals make any difference in program allocations by agencies? Question for Program Managers * How many proposals have been reviewed annually for the last 10 years? * How many proposals have been selected annually for the last 10 year? * How much money has been awarded annually in the last 10 years for competed research grants? * What fraction of the total program budget each year has gone to support competed grants? Questions about Impact on People * What anecdotal evidence do we have about the impact of funding rates? * What quantitative information can we find about people entering or leaving the field? * What are the off-ramps (retirement, leaving the field, working part time, etc.) for each discipline and how many are using them? * What are the on-ramps (students, from other fields, shifting research focus, etc.) for each discipline and how many are using them?