Author
Francis P. Crawley
Recent research
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Global research protocol for self-evaluation in research assessment
This protocol sets out the objectives, expected learnings, methodology, and analysis plan for a CoARA-ERIP SE4RA global study on AI-supported research practices, ethics self-evaluation, and responsible research assessment. It supports a scientifically robust, transparent, proport...
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This protocol sets out how the Modular Assessment Configurator (MAC) is to be built as a governed, modular, transparent, and human-reviewed instrument for responsible research assessment. The Configurator is a configuration, reflection, evidence-mapping, self-evaluation, and gove...
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Understanding data, AI, sovereignty, and open science
Presentation given at the EGI Conference 2026 (Ghent, 23 September 2026) in the session of the CODATA Open Science Cloud Service XI Metadata Task Group, 'Exploring the AI-driven knowledge world with the metadata approach and beyond', following the Task Group's gap analysis presen...
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The second of two independent opinions on the ethics screening of research for European Commission funding, written in a personal capacity by a member and co-rapporteur of the panels and submitted to the European Commission on 28 July 2026. It concerns the internal dimension of e...
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The first of two independent opinions on the ethics screening of research for European Commission funding, written in a personal capacity by a member and co-rapporteur of the panels and submitted to the European Commission on 28 July 2026. It examines the treatment of artificial...
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The space of conscience is a position paper in the GCPA-SIDCER series Science, Policy, and Ethics in Conversation. It argues that the question whether an artificial, biological, or hybrid system might cross a threshold into moral standing, posed as a question about what an entity...
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Abstract Artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies are entering health research faster than the systems that oversee it can adapt. Two reform movements respond. A global movement runs through the World Health Organization’s action plan for clinical trial ecosystem s...
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From pilot to method: the CoARA-ERIP instruments and the road to 2033
Research assessment reform has entered a second act. Its principles are broadly settled, and the argument has shifted from whether to reform to how, and to how the reform itself is to be known. This article argues that the frontier now runs through questions the reform has mostly...
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From pilot to method: the CoARA-ERIP instruments and the road to 2033
Research assessment reform has entered a second act. Its principles are broadly settled, and the argument has shifted from whether to reform to how, and to how the reform itself is to be known. This article argues that the frontier now runs through questions the reform has mostly...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
A GCPA-SIDCER position paper in the Science, Policy, and Ethics in Conversation (SPEC) series. Drawing on the FSCI 2026 course 'Who's afraid of knowing?', which the author chaired, and on the reform of research assessment, the paper argues that artificial intelligence has become...
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Conscience and its place in the governance of AI agents: the RDA-Microsoft Data Director
This position paper, in the Science, Policy, and Ethics in Conversation (SPEC) series, builds on a set of comments contributed to the community review of the RDA-Microsoft Data Director Agentic AI Tool Blueprint and takes that Blueprint as a worked case. It argues that the specif...