Our The British Academy Small Grants scheme has opened. We are doing a 3 year trial of partial randomised assessment, because we receive so many good applications. Awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Great editorial in nature which supports our The British Academy approach in trialling partial randomisation for grant assessment. It encourages other funders to adopt this to assuage concerns about a lack of fairness of grant allocation through peer review nature.com/articles/d4158…

Making research funding a lottery could help tackle ‘status bias’.

Pick up in Financial Times by Anjana Ahuja of our The British Academy trial using partial randomisation to award small research grants
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