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Scientists' coping strategies in an evolving research system: the case of life scientists in the UK

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  • Norma Morris
  • Arie Rip

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Scientists in academia have struggled to adjust to a policy climate of uncertain funding and loss of freedom from direction and control. How UK life scientists have negotiated this challenge, and with what consequences for their research and the research system, is the empirical entrance point of this paper. We find that policy impacts can be modulated and buffered by strategies and compromises devised and deployed at research performer level. This shifts conceptualisation from terms of responses to one of more or less proactive strategies of scientists and science organisations which add up, intentionally or unintentionally, to shifts in the overall system. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Norma Morris & Arie Rip, 2006. "Scientists' coping strategies in an evolving research system: the case of life scientists in the UK," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 33(4), pages 253-263, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:33:y:2006:i:4:p:253-263
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    1. Conor O'Kane & James Cunningham & Vincent Mangematin, 2012. "Underpinning Strategic Behaviours and Posture of Principal Investigators in Transition/Uncertain Environments," Working paper serie RMT - Grenoble Ecole de Management hal-00794944, HAL.
    2. Conor O'Kane & James Cunningham & Vincent Mangematin, 2012. "Underpinning Strategic Behaviours and Posture of Principal Investigators in Transition/Uncertain Environments," Working Papers hal-00794944, HAL.

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