Inquiry into political interference in research will consider stripping ministers of the power to reverse decisions on peer-assessed projects.
Academics in Australia say the grant-assessment process needs to rigorous and conducted with integrity.Researchers in Australia have endorsed a proposal to remove government ministers’ power to veto grant-funding decisions made by expert science committees. They say this veto ability is just one example of Australia’s political overreach in research, and is a threat to academic freedom.
Brian Schmidt, a Nobel laureate and Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University in Canberra, told the inquiry on 9 March that the “independence of the research grant process is a core part of how liberal democracies work”. He said the veto was affecting universities’ ability to attract overseas talent and was damaging to the national interest.have been made to the inquiry, including from the Australian Academy of Sciences and Universities Australia.
“The ministerial veto feels like it’s almost on a whim,” says Andrew Francis, a mathematician at Western Sydney University in Penrith, Australia, and one of the two members who resigned. “It’s such an affront to that process and the hard work that so many people put into making what are really extremely difficult decisions about which grant proposals to fund and not fund.”
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