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(Australia) Australian scientists join outcry over humanities research veto – Times Higher Education (Jack Grove | January 2022)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on January 18, 2022
Keywords: Australia, Institutional responsibilities, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research results

The Linked Original Item was Posted On January 10, 2022

A silhouette cartoon of a protest rally.

Dozens of Australia’s leading scientists have added their voices to growing condemnation of a minister’s decision to veto grant funding for humanities projects, calling for an end to “political interference” in the peer review process.

Academic freedom should be the cornerstone of the role of research in a modern healthy democracy.  In recent years in Australia, we’re seeing that it’s not the case here.  Whether a project is funded should be based on learned and independent peer review, not the kind of knee-jerk populist outrage dog-whistling that drives some politicians.

In an open letter to Sue Thomas, chief executive of the Australian Research Council (ARC), and the country’s acting education minister Stuart Robert, 63 ARC laureate fellows raise concerns over the cancellation of six research grants on Christmas Eve on the grounds that they “do not demonstrate value for taxpayers’ money nor contribute to the national interest”.

“Research in Australia has become political and shortsighted,” warns the letter signed by recipients of Australia’s most prestigious and largest award for individual researchers and includes researchers from all disciplines. It also calls for Mr Robert to reverse his veto and approve ARC grant applications that “pass through the tried, tested and rigorous peer review process and that meet the conditions set out in the call for applications”.

Australian scientists join outcry over humanities research veto
Leading scholars from Australian universities have joined scientific bodies to demand reversal of pre-election veto of humanities grants

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(New Zealand) Are New Zealand’s universities doing enough to define the limits of academic freedom? – The Conversation (Matheson Russell | November 2021)

(Australia) Gaslighting the world: Coalition pressured its own scientists to save reef from ‘at risk’ label – Crikey (Kishor Napier-Raman | September 2021)

(Australia) Environment department tried to bury research that found huge underspend on Australian threatened species – The Guardian (Lisa Cox | May 2021)

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