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James Wilsdon

  • Digital Science Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield
Sheffield
As seen in: Color Research & Application, Nature, The Guardian, Memory Studies, Educational Studies, SAGE Publishing, Taylor & Francis Online, The Conversation, Flipboard, Science Magazine and
Covers:  Science policy, research policy, innovation policy, research funding
director @RoRInstitute | no longer on here - find me at jameswilsdon.bsky.social

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James Wilsdon is Digital Science Professor of Research Policy at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), a global consortium of research funders, academics and technologists working to advance transformative & translational ‘meta-research'. He is also vice-chair of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA).

An interdisciplinary social scientist, he works on the politics, governance and management of research systems, and the …

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James Wilsdon articles for The Guardian

James Wilsdon articles for The Guardian

Mostly articles written for the Guardian's "Political Science" blog, which ran from 2013-2018 and covered the…

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Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?

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By Geraint Rees, James Wilsdon
| Flipboard
10 hours ago I’m sure you’ve heard this before: “AI won’t replace people. People who use AI will replace people who don’t.” No one is sure who (if anyone) said it first, perhaps Sam Altman or Jensen Huang. But since it became clear that the AI revolution is truly underway, it’s become a familiar phrase. As a …
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Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?

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By Geraint Rees, James Wilsdon
| Nature Verified
Artificial intelligence is transforming grant writing. A new wave of AI tools, known as agents, can now generate a research grant application, review it and submit it. AI agents are large language models (LLMs) equipped with tools that let them search the web, read documents, write and execute code, and call external services, for example.
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Metascience’s challenge is to keep its big tent intact

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By Stephen Curry, James Wilsdon
| Research Professional News Verified
Surging interest in discipline is fuelling breakthroughs and tensions, say Stephen Curry and James Wilsdon When you organise a party, there’s always a nervy moment when you’re not sure how many of those invited will turn up. As hosts of last week’s Metascience 2025 summit, we were confident that this, the fourth meeting in the biennial series, would be the biggest yet.
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