Assessing the impact of research: Research-on-research joint initiative award recipients announced

How do you assess the impact of research? Evidence is needed to understand and improve how research is funded and conducted, and how its results are used for the benefit of Canadians.

Research-on-research, or meta-research, is the study of how research itself is funded, practiced, and shared – in order to gather this evidence.

Michael Smith Health Research BC, with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is pleased to announce four BC-based recipients of a Research-on-Research joint initiative award over the next three years.

This is part of a partnership with SSHRC and CIHR that is investing $2.7M in total to fund 14 teams through the initiative.

The research supported by this initiative aims to enhance the value and impact of research in Canada by improving funding processes and influencing research practices.

Recipients of this funding will explore topics including urban Indigenous governance in health research, applying health technology assessment in peer review processes and how research funding policy interventions can affect what is studied.

The initiative also brings Canadian expertise and perspectives into the international dialogue on improving research funding practices.

Learn more: Funding to strengthen national capacity in metaresearch

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Details:

Clare Ardern
Equalizing Research Grants for Open Research Impact in Health: The ERGO-Impact Project

Mark Harrison
Applying early health technology assessment in peer review: A framework for ‘a priori’ potential impact assessment of translational health research proposals

Kate Johnson
What is the Impact of Involving Transdisciplinary Model Users in Policy-Oriented Simulation Modelling? A Meta-Research Study

Gabrielle Legault
Urban Indigenous governance in health research: Pathways for engagement, data sovereignty and knowledge translation