What is Metascience? | James Wilsdon and Helen Buckley Woods

RoRI Executive Director James Wilsdon and Senior Researcher Helen Buckley Woods introduce metascience and the Research on Research Institute. 01:03 What is RoRI? 02:35 Metascience isn’t new / History of metascience 03:38 The metascience wave 04:36 How do people arrive at metascience 06:08 Mapping the academic literature that constitutes metascience 08:07 Metascience as side hustle 08:35 Is metascience a discipline? 10:22 Metascience methods 12:30 Potential of metascience in policy 15:10 Example of metascience in practice 17:33 Why is metascience important for governments and the funding of science? 18:20 Science for policy vs policy for science A year in metascience (2025) UK Gov report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publica...