{"id":1410,"date":"2019-02-18T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:43:41","slug":"how-does-the-rub-research-school-plus-review-process-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/how-does-the-rub-research-school-plus-review-process-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the RUB Research School PLUS Review Process Work ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the first step of the <strong>RUB-RS PLUS review process<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.research-school.rub.de\/rsplus.0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.research-school.rub.de\/rsplus.0.html<\/a>) \u00a0\u00a0doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty are involved in every aspect of the reviewing process and receive training and further guidance in successfully writing and reviewing international grant proposals for the different RUB-RS PLUS funding lines.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the RUB-RS PLUS review process actually works:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1412 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rub.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rub-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RUB Research School PLUS<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>first step of the quality review cycle<\/strong> begins with the doctoral student handing in his or her grant proposal for one of the RUB-RS PLUS international funding lines after having received training and further support from the Research School\u00b4s Central Coordination Office on how to successfully write international grant proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> second step of the review process cycle <\/strong>sets in: two peer doctoral students, one doctoral student coming from the applicant\u00b4s discipline, the other having a non-subject specific background, review the applicant\u00b4s grant proposal based on pre-defined funding guidelines and training on how to do so provided by the research school\u00b4s Central Coordination Office.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by the <strong>third step of the review process cycle.<\/strong> The Early Career Researcher Board, consisting of two early career researchers (senior doctoral students, postdoctoral researches and\/or junior professors)\u00a0 review the grant proposal of the applicant doctoral student and comment on the quality of the reviews of the first quality review cycle provided by the two reviewing doctoral students.<\/p>\n<p>Based on those four reviews, the Executive Board of the RUB-RS PLUS then <strong>finally decides on the success of the applicant\u00b4s grant proposal<\/strong>. This board\u00a0 consists of five professors and four doctoral representatives from the Humanities, Natural &amp; Life Sciences, Social Sciences and from Engineering. With this bundled expertise, it not only takes the final grant decision but it is also responsible for further developing the guidelines for the RUB-RS PLUS application and review process, thereby involving doctoral students in all the aspects of the quality review process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the first step of the RUB-RS PLUS review process (http:\/\/www.research-school.rub.de\/rsplus.0.html) \u00a0\u00a0doctoral &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/how-does-the-rub-research-school-plus-review-process-work\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How does the RUB Research School PLUS Review Process Work ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internationalization-of-the-curriculum","article-example-of-good-practice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/impala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}