Dismantling the old boy's club system
We need to ensure that National Science Challenges and other funded entities (e.g. Genomics Aotearoa, CoREs) have ‘on ramps’ to allow researchers and communities with diverse perspectives to ‘come on board’. While the aim of the NSCs (to enhance collaboration) is admirable, in practice, the strong reliance on networking associated with assembling a bid for all long-term funding opportunities makes it hard for fresh thinking from “outside” of traditional RSI structures to break in. While bids that have cast a wide net to ensure that diverse perspectives are included exist in the current RSI ecosystem, unfortunately not all bids fall under this category, and can perpetuate the benefits of belonging to an “old boys’ club”.
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