Insights on research impact, AI in academia, and the future of research assessment
US federal agencies have used keyword and semantic screening to flag research grants for termination, and researchers are left guessing which accurate scientific terms might put their funding at risk. A banned-words checker would be easy to build. We explain why we won't build one, and what we will do instead.
From 2027 Australian institutions can lead Horizon Europe consortia and draw EU funding directly — but the "$155 billion" framing, the ERC and Marie Curie access most people assume, and the discontinued NHMRC matching scheme are all more complicated than the announcement suggests. A researcher-first guide to what actually changed, the compliance traps, and how to prepare before the 2027 calls open.
A new grant proposal costs an Australian researcher around 34 working days, and the part you rewrite most often is the impact narrative. Smart Grant Adaptation redrafts the impact-relevant sections of your application to fit each funder’s structure, limits and assessment criteria, from a single ResearchImpact report.
The argument for narrative impact assessment has been won. But the evidence inside those narratives is locked in prose, invisible to any system that needs to find, compare, or reuse it. What if every impact report also produced the structured data that makes its evidence portable, verifiable, and reusable?
Every researcher begins with a question that refuses to leave them alone. Yet the moment that question enters the machinery of modern science, its fate becomes entangled with a paradox that shapes every decision we make. Explore how understanding research impact has become the silent compass behind every choice in science.