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James Wilsdon

0000-0002-5395-5949

Professor of Research Policy & Director of RoRI (Research, science and technology policy)

London, UK

James Wilsdon is Professor of Research Policy in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy (STEaPP) at UCL and founding director of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), which launched in 2019 with a mission to accelerate transformational research on research systems, cultures and decision-making. Over his career, in addition to academic posts at the universities of Sheffield, Sussex & Lancaster, James has worked in think tanks, NGOs and as director of science policy for the Royal Society. He has advanced concepts such as upstream public engagement, science diplomacy & responsible metrics; and has co-founded or led initiatives including the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA); People & Planet; the Campaign for Social Science; and the UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and in 2022, he was appointed a Fellow of the International Science Council (FISC).

Publications

  • Acknowledging AI's dark side
  • We need a measured approach to metrics
  • Low-carbon China: The role of international collaboration
  • Research priorities for managing the impacts and dependencies of business upon food, energy, water and the environment
  • UK science, post-Brexit
  • Brexit must preserve advisory networks
  • UKRI open access review: Consultation analysis
  • The changing role of funders in responsible research assessment: progress, obstacles and the way ahead
  • Tracking global evidence-to-policy pathways in the coronavirus crisis: A preliminary report
  • The Brexit experience — evidence, expertise, and post-truth politics
  • Introduction: Digital Futures: An agenda for a sustainable digital economy
  • The Biomedical Bubble: Why UK research and innovation needs a greater diversity of priorities, politics, places and people
  • The Diversity Dividend: does a more diverse and inclusive research community produce better biomedical and health research?
  • Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research
  • The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management
  • The Metric Tide: Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management
  • A conducive environment? The role of need support in the higher education workplace and its effect on academics' experiences of research assessment in the UK
  • The Real-Time REF Review: A Pilot Study to Examine the Feasibility of a Longitudinal Evaluation of Perceptions and Attitudes Towards REF 2021
  • From paradox to principles: where next for scientific advice to governments?
  • Sustainability in turbulent times: lessons from the Nexus Network for supporting transdisciplinary research
  • Responsible metrics
  • Powerhouse of Science? Prospects and Pitfalls of Place-Based Science and Innovation Policies in Northern England
  • Analysts, advocates and applicators : three discourse coalitions of UK evidence and policy
  • For science, Brexit isn't done yet
  • Next-Generation Metrics: Responsible Metrics & Evaluation for Open Science
  • Lessons from the UK’s handling of Covid-19 for the future of scientific advice to government: a contribution to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry
  • Socially-distanced science: how British publics were imagined, modelled and marginalised in political and expert responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Forskningens plass i politikken
  • Dot-com ethics: E-business and sustainability
  • The new geography of science
  • The Past, Present and Future of the Chief Scientific Advisor
  • The Real-Time REF Review: A Pilot Study (Executive Summary)
  • Business Budget freeze for research
  • Impact on research funding
  • Low-carbon China: The role of international collaboration
  • Dot-com ethics: E-business and sustainability
  • The Brexit experience - Evidence, expertise, and post-truth politics
  • Acknowledging AI's dark side
  • Europe the rule-maker
  • From Bio to Nano: Learning Lessons from the UK Agricultural Biotechnology Controversy
  • China: the next science superpower?
  • Watchdogs of the European system
  • From foresight to hindsight: the promise of history in responsible innovation
  • Science policy: Beyond the great and good
  • Why should we promote public engagement with science?
  • The politics of small things: nanotechnology, risk, and uncertainty
  • The past, present and future of the chief scientific advisor
  • Science advice for Europe
  • The new geography of science
  • Metrics and Assessment
  • Digital Sustainability in Europe
  • Dot.com ethics: E-business and sustainability
  • Digital futures - An agenda for a sustainable digital economy
  • Global resilience through knowledge-based cooperation: a new Protocol for Science Diplomacy
  • Digital Futures: An Agenda for a Sustainable Digital Economy
  • Open Research Conversation: Visualising CoVid data
  • The changing landscape for research policy and funding
  • Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research: systematic mapping protocol
  • The pandemic veneer: COVID-19 research as a mobilisation of collective intelligence by the global research community
  • A science superpower in the wings?
  • Supported or stressed while being assessed? How motivational climates in UK University workplaces promote or inhibit researcher well‐being
  • Foreword
  • Where next for partial randomisation of research funding? The feasibility of RCTs and alternatives [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
  • Socially-distanced science: how British publics were imagined, modelled and marginalised in political and expert responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (v.2, Jan 2024)

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