Research and Resources
Sponsoring actionable science: what public science funders can do to advance sustainability and the social contract for science
February 26, 2020
Informing Institutional Change
Producing actionable science to inform decisions on
sustainability is an important opportunity for science to serve
society and fulfill expectations that come along with public
financial support. In turn, how public science funding is
managed may help spur different ways of doing science that
are better suited to linking kscience with sustainability action.
This review identifies opportunities for science funding
program management to bolster the generation of actionable
science through different approaches to solicitation design,
review processes, implementation support, and evaluation. To
understand more about this opportunity space, we argue for a
more interactive, iterative, and evaluation-centered approach
to the study and practice of public science funding program
management.
