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Funding

Summary: We have been funded by the European Union for four Framework Projects and have received many other research contracts. We have also completed research for the United Nations Millenium Development Campaign, the Milan Chamber of Commerce, the BBC World Service Trust, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the UK National Archive, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the publisher Emerald, and have been part of successful funding bids to UK, Dutch, Canadian and German government funding agencies.

• Current externally funded projects.

  • Cascades, Islands or Streams? Time, Topic, and Scholarly Activities in Humanities and Social Science Research (2012-13). Digging Into Data project with US and Canadian partners, internationally funded with the UK component from JISC.

  • Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN - 2011-2014) Large FP7 EU funded project: Investigating sources of evidence for the impact of researchers' careers - a sort of super-CV.

  • Food for thought and thought for food: the local-global entanglement of the slow food movement: NWO Complexity Programme grant (The Netherlands, 2011-2014). Led by Stefan Dormans, Bas Hendrikx, and Arnoud Lagendijk of the Nijmegen School of Management. See the project's Slow Food Movements Blog.
  • CyberEmotions - This large FP7 EU project on sentiment analysis in social media is about to start involving nine European organisations and with a multi-million Euro budget.
  • Twice-yearly online impact reports for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).

  • Mobility Patterns and Career Paths of EU Researchers II (MORE II). European Commission funded project. Previous project MORE website.

• Completed externally funded projects:
  • Web Indicators for the Research Evaluation Framework - Leverhulme research fellow (2011) - Kayvan Kousha.
  • ‘Carbon compounds’: Lexical creativity in the context of climate change - consultants to the Institute for Science and Society of Nottingham University in this ESRC-funded project.
  • Rindicate - "The use of webometrics for the analysis of knowledge flows within the European Research Area". In relation to (DG-RTD-2005-M-02-01): "Multiple Framework Service Contract for Expert Support with the Production and Analysis of R&D Policy Indicators" together with IDEA CONSULT (coordinator), NIFU STEP, and SPRU. The project is set to be published in the EU research information portal.
  • United National Millennium DevelopmentCampaign evaluation: In partnership with the consultancy firm Leitmotiv, we are carrying out a global evaluation of the United National Millennium Campaign. Leitmotiv is the overall coordinator and we are providing methodological guidance, statistical synthesis and primary research on media, communication and online advocacy.
    • OTERO, E. & CUGELMAN, B. (2009) UN Millennium Campaign: External evaluation 2009. United Nations Millennium Campaign, Leitmotiv and Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group.
    • CUGELMAN, B. & OTERO, E. (2009) UN Millennium Campaign: United States evaluation. United Nations Millennium Campaign, Leitmotiv and Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group.
  • Digitised Resources: A Usage and Impact Study - consultants to the Oxford Internet Institue for this JISC-funded project.
  • CREEN - EU FP6 project developed the physics of complexity science, and developed web tools to track, model and predict science debates on the web (2005-8).
  • RESCAR - an initiative to track EU postdoctoral researchers in social sciences and engineering (2006-7).
  • The 1-year JISC-funded project User Needs and Potential Users of Public Repositories: An Integrated Analysis (2006).
  • NetReAct - a 14 month initiative to investigate EU life science research (2005-6).
  • EU FP5 funded project WISER - an initiative to develop web indicators for science, technology and innovation research (2003-5).
  • Medici Fellow, a one year funded postdoctoral position (2004-5).
  • Small research projects for the journal publishers Emerald and the Milan Chamber of Commerce, Italy (2005, 2006).
  • Supportive roles in a Netherlands government funded research project on Integrated Water Resource Management, and co-applicants on a successful small British Council grant for Anglo-Dutch collaboration (2004-7).

Unfunded Projects

• An (unfunded) Online Social Marketing initiative is was run with the collaboration of the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP)

 

 

Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology & Research Institute for Information and Langauge Processing, University of Wolverhampton, UK