Evaluating researcher and stakeholder perspectives on socially responsible research and innovation practices in research performing organisations

TL;DR

This paper describes surveys designed to assess responsible research practices in marine and maritime research organizations across Europe.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel survey framework for evaluating responsible research innovation practices in five European marine research institutions.

Findings

Three surveys were developed and implemented to measure RRI practices in five research organizations.

The surveys targeted specific stakeholder groups in each organization to establish baseline data.

The paper provides insights into the design and implementation of evaluation tools for institutional change.

Abstract

The European Commission-funded GRRIP (Grounding RRI Practices) project aims to embed sustainable Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) practices in five research performing organisations (RPOs), focusing on the marine and maritime sector. The project’s goal is to achieve institutional and cultural change through a cycle of evaluation, evidence-based interventions and further evaluation. For this purpose, a set of three surveys were designed and implemented in the first part of the project (2020) to establish a baseline measurement of RRI-related practices within the project partner institutions and their stakeholders. Each survey was specifically designed to target a relevant category of people for each of the five RPOs implementing RRI actions. These five institutions are research departments and centres linked to the marine and maritime sector in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France and the UK. This paper presents the design of these survey-based evaluation instruments and the linked datasets generated by their implementation.