Register for our
upcoming Dimensions webinars! Spend less time searching for the right information and more
time acting on it. Dimensions, from Digital
Science, is a comprehensive discovery and analytics platform with
millions of data points, and an ideal information source. Classifying research
grants by Sustainable Development GoalsJune 8th 3:00pm - 4:00pm
BST In this webinar, we will share the results of an analysis made
during April and May 2021, in which we attempted to document the
likely impact on the sustainability agenda from competitive
research grants. Grants awarded by Britain’s UKRI funder group over a 10 year
period were analysed using Digital Science’s SDG classification
technology to assess how many were associated with research in
support of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). Further, resulting publications from the same grants were
analysed in the same way, to establish if and to what extent they
addressed the same SDGs. In addition to the results from the analysis carried out, we
will also share results from the classification work itself, to
demonstrate how the classification technology is able to capture
sustainability related research terminology. While classification of research articles by sustainable
development goals is becoming more common, the purpose of the
analysis was also to see how useful the application of the same
technology would be to research grants; arguably the starting point
for most public research today and a critical factor for
scientifically supported sustainability developments. |