Narratives The uses and evaluation of researchers’ narrative CVs
The use of narrative CVs is growing rapidly across research systems, as part of a wider shift towards responsible research assessment. Building on earlier scoping by DORA, the partners involved in the NARRATIVES project have aligned in identifying three modules of greatest interest to the group.
The first module will develop an inventory of challenges related to the implementation of narrative CVs across different funding organisations, and strategies to tackle them. For this purpose, we will synthesise information that has already been collected by participating organisations as well as create additional evidence through focus groups and interviews.
The second module will focus on learning effects among reviewers handling narrative CVs over consecutive funding rounds. The aim here is to study conditions that facilitate making optimal use of the affordances of narrative CVs. We will collect empirical material through participant observation in review panels, through interviews, as well as through surveys with reviewers.
The third module will investigate the effects of narrative CVs on the diversity of funding recipients. To do this we will conduct an experiment to compare the effects of using a narrative CV rather than a regular CV. This will be done by splitting a cohort of applicants by CV type, and comparing outcomes.
