GRF · Research Nexus
Decision-rights context
Research dialogue informs decisions; it does not make them. This page locates the people and bodies that hold decision rights over research and its use: public authorities that fund research and set policy, institutions that govern research quality, the communities whose knowledge and interests are at stake, and the researchers themselves. It also sets out the boundary of Research Nexus, which convenes and records but never decides for anyone. It complements discipline and institutional issues.
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Decision rights over research and its use.
Funding and policy
Ministries, research councils and legislatures decide research funding, priorities and how evidence is used in public decisions.
Quality and integrity
Universities, institutes, journals and integrity offices govern review, misconduct investigations and correction.
Consent and knowledge
Communities, including Indigenous rights holders, decide on use of their knowledge and data and on research that affects them.
Field overview.
The screen a team would use to follow this subject: its measures, states and decisions. Names are examples and values are illustrative.
Who decides what gets researched and published.
| Decision | Holder | Check |
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| Funding priorities | Research councils and funders | Peer review, public calls |
| Ethics approval | Research ethics committees | Institutional and national rules |
| Publication | Editors and authors | Peer review, COPE norms |
| Use in policy | The deciding authority | Its own procedure |
Research Nexus holds none of these decisions; dialogues can make them visible to each other.
Researchers hold rights and duties too.
Researchers decide on their questions and methods within ethics approvals and funding terms, and they are responsible for honest reporting, disclosure of conflicts and correction of errors. Academic freedom protects their ability to publish findings that are inconvenient to funders or authorities.
What Research Nexus adds, and where it stops.
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Convening
Brings researchers and institutions together on agreed questions, with balanced participation.
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Comparing
Sets out how different institutions and countries approach the same evidence.
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Recording
Keeps a transparent record of what was discussed and agreed.
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Boundary
GRF convenes and governs programmes. It does not regulate, finance, procure or certify, and hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings. Research Nexus does not fund, commission, review or certify research, and its records carry no binding force.
How the three institutions divide the work.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) conducts and publishes science through Reports. GRF convenes and governs dialogue. Global Risks Alliance (GRA) builds shared industry understanding of what evidence means for finance, for example through Financial Regulations Nexus. None of them takes decisions that belong to authorities or institutions.
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Questions and answers.
Can a dialogue record be used as authority advice?
Who decides the topics of dialogues?
Does GRF make decisions on research policy?
What if participants disagree with an authority's use of evidence?
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