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| - | ==== What is the effect of reduced funding for individual research grants | + | ==== General Data we need (over the last 10 years) ==== |
| - | * What do we expect to happen if the current trend continues unchecked? | + | * Who is writing the proposals? |
| - | * Does it represent healthy competition and improve proposal quality? | + | * PI position: e.g. postdoc, assist. Prof, assoc. Prof, tenured faculty, research faculty, Gender, race/ |
| - | * Does it unfairly target younger researchers? | + | * How many proposals submitted by same PI - broken down by PI category |
| - | * Does it reduce the number of scientists in the field? | + | |
| - | * Does it favor large projects | + | |
| - | ==== Solution 1: one proposal per year per PI ==== | + | |
| - | * Is it good for the science? | + | |
| - | * Reduce the diversity of ideas? Stifle risky, but imaginative proposals? | + | |
| - | * How many proposals are same PI | + | |
| - | * Rate of success of new PI | + | |
| - | * Do new PIs come up thru the ranks? How many proposals was a PI on as a senior researcher in the past. | + | |
| - | * Size of collaborations, | + | |
| - | * How do we track "new ideas" ? | + | |
| - | * Would it improve success rates? | + | |
| - | * funding requested per proposal, $$ requested for successful vs unsuccessful | + | |
| - | * number of times proposed before success. | + | |
| - | * demographics on success vs unsuccessful | + | |
| - | * Would it reduce reviewer load? | + | |
| - | * number of proposals per group, per PI, per faculty vs research vs lab | + | |
| - | * Would it create more PIs (proposals) from otherwise collaborating senior researchers? | + | |
| - | * Does it make it even more difficult to decide between a few very excellent must-fund proposals? | + | |
| - | ==== Solution 2: RFPs every other year ==== | + | |
| - | * Is it good for the science? | + | |
| - | * Does it create funding gaps for tenure-seeking researchers and thus unfairly target a demographic we want to encourage? | + | |
| - | * Does it create uneven funding levels, loss of resources, lack of continuity in the off years? | + | |
| - | * Would it improve success rates? | + | |
| - | * Or create a multitude of poor proposals in the “on” year | + | |
| - | * Would the funding requested per proposal go up? | + | |
| - | * Would it reduce reviewer load? | + | |
| - | * Or create many more proposals in the “on” year? | + | |
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| - | ==== Data we need ==== | + | |
| - | * Who is writing the proposals? | + | |
| - | * PI position: e.g. postdoc, assist. Prof, assoc. Prof, tenured faculty, research faculty, Gender, race/ | + | |
| - | * How many proposals submitted by same PI (broken down by PI category) | + | |
| * Number of senior researchers on proposal | * Number of senior researchers on proposal | ||
| - | * per year, per category of PI, per funding requested | + | * per year, per category of PI, per funding requested |
| - | * Compare success rates of different sorts of proposals | + | * Compare success rates of different sorts of proposals |
| * per PI category, per number of senior researchers, | * per PI category, per number of senior researchers, | ||
| - | * Years between proposals | + | * Years between proposals |
| * cross correlate to success rate, PI category, # of senior researcher | * 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)? | * 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 | * 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? | ||
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| + | Nature of community support questions | ||
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| + | * What number or fraction of the community is supported by research projects/ | ||
| + | * 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? | ||
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| + | * 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, | ||
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| + | Individual support questions | ||
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| + | * 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/ | ||
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| + | Career questions | ||
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| + | * 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? | ||
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| + | Competition Questions | ||
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| + | * 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? | ||
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| + | Question for Program Managers | ||
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| + | * 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? | ||
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| + | Questions about Impact on People | ||
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| + | * 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, | ||
| + | * What are the on-ramps (students, from other fields, shifting research focus, etc.) for each discipline and how many are using them? | ||