About CAPR
The Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR) was a four year project (2008 - 2012) that examined the peer review process at six science agencies worldwide: NSF, NIH, and NOAA in the United States, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Reseach Council of Canada (NSERC), the European Commission 7th Framework Programme, and the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW). Funded by the NSF SciSIP program, CAPR was a project of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas.
- For our work on NSF's broader impact criterion, click here.
Our research focuses on how different agencies integrate broader societal impacts issues into the peer review of grant proposals.
CAPR's products include:
- publications examining the development of peer review at federal agencies worldwide
- a series of workshops with user groups to increase societal access to decision making
- a repository of documents relating to the peer review process at each of these agencies
- a survey of stakeholders concerning the relationship between science, society, and the role of peer review
Broader Impacts of CAPR: Along with the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT and its new PhD program, CSID is building capacity for the SciSIP community in the philosophy of science policy. You can view our projects outcome report here.
CAPR TEAM
Robert Frodeman, Principal Investigator
William E. Moen, co-PI
Warren Burggren, co-PI
J. Britt Holbrook, co-PI
Carl Mitcham, co-PI