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Scientists’ coping strategies in an evolving research system: the case of life scientists in the UK

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Scientists in academia have struggled to adjust to a policy climate of uncertain funding and loss of freedom from direction and control. How UK life scientists have negotiated this challenge, and with what consequences for their research and the research system, is the empirical entrance point of this paper. We find that policy impacts can be modulated and buffered by strategies and compromises devised and deployed at research performer level. This shifts conceptualisation from terms of responses to one of more or less proactive strategies of scientists and science organisations which add up, intentionally or unintentionally, to shifts in the overall system.

Source: Science and Public Policy

DOI: 10.3152/147154306781778957

Authors: Norma Morris, Arie Rip

Institutions: University College London, University of Twente

Language: English

Topic: Research, Science, and Academia

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: University College London, Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W2129092317

FWCI: 4.744

Cites: 52

Cited by: 72

Related to: 10