Research Landscape

Research Landscape

Research and policy: the constraint is timing, not evidence

Policy decisions are made on the evidence available at the moment of decision, not the best evidence eventually produced.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Research Landscape

Interdisciplinary work in smaller systems: an advantage that is rarely used

Smaller research communities have less disciplinary separation than large ones — which is a genuine structural advantage.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Research Landscape

Research and development needs: relevance is a design choice, not an outcome

Research does not become useful to a country by accident. It becomes useful when it was designed to be, from the question onward.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Research Landscape

Local-language research: invisible to the metrics, essential to the users

Work published in the local language reaches the people who can act on it. It also disappears from every international measure.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Research Landscape

Setting priorities: what a system can build is narrower than what it could study

Every research system must choose. The failure mode is choosing implicitly, by funding whatever is proposed.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Research Landscape

Reading a research system: growth figures describe less than they seem to

Output figures for a growing research system are among the most cited and least interpretable numbers in the field.

19/08/2026 4 min read