BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Research on Research - ECPv6.9.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://researchonresearch.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Research on Research REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250319T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250319T160000 DTSTAMP:20250708T064311 CREATED:20250217T152217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T152451Z UID:2209-1742396400-1742400000@researchonresearch.org SUMMARY:Do Grant Proposal Texts Matter for Funding Decisions? A Field Experiment DESCRIPTION:19 March 2025 08:00 PDT  / 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET \n\n\n\nScientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? \n\n\n\nWe report on a field experiment conducted by The Dutch Research Council (NWO) in collaboration with the authors in an early-career competition for awards of 800\,000 euros of research funding. A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research\, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings. This result suggests that the resources devoted to writing and evaluating grant proposals may not have their intended effect of facilitating the selection of the most promising science. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\nMüge Simsek is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the programme group Institutions\, Inequalities and Life Courses at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her PhD from Utrecht University in 2019 and completed postdoctoral research at both Utrecht University and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. Prior to her current role\, she worked as a lecturer at University College Groningen. Her research centers on the integration processes of immigrants and their offspring\, with a particular emphasis on the role of religion. In parallel\, she maintains a secondary research agenda focused on the organization of science and inequality within academia. URL:https://researchonresearch.org/event/do-grant-proposal-texts-matter-for-funding-decisions-a-field-experiment/ CATEGORIES:Experiments ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://researchonresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pexels-pixabay-87611-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR