Academic Advisory Board of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS): Call for Applications

23/10/2025

The Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS) invites applications for 3–10 positions on its Academic Advisory Board (AAB). The Board will play a central role in ensuring the scientific rigour, relevance, and quality of GRIOS’s work.

About GRIOS

The Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS) is a new initiative aiming to promote more effective Open Science policies by synthesising our current knowledge about Open Science. 

GRIOS will commission systematic and scoping reviews of academic literature on Open Science. These reviews will address a range of research questions, with the goal of summarising existing evidence on Open Science. The results will help identify what works, what does not, and what key barriers exist—offering insights to support evidence-based Open Science policymaking. It will also help to track trends and impacts in Open Science. We are currently setting up our governance structure, comprised of a Steering Committee, which represents the GRIOS funders, and an Academic Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the scientific quality of our work. GRIOS is hosted and supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF). Further details can be found at www.grios.org.

Role of the Academic Advisory Board

The Academic Advisory Board is an integral part of the GRIOS governance. Its main role is to advise the GRIOS Steering Committee on academic matters and ensure the academic rigour and quality of the work produced by the initiative. We are currently seeking 3-10 individual members to constitute the first Academic Advisory Board of the Initiative.

Key responsibilities of the Academic Advisory Board

The Academic Advisory Board will provide academic expertise and guidance to the Steering Committee, such as proposing topics to be considered for review, evaluating the applications for systematic/scoping reviews received, validating the research methodologies used, assessing the use of Open Science practices and adherence to ethical standards. It will monitor and evaluate the work to be commissioned by GRIOS and report to the Steering Committee on the review work being carried out.

Benefits of serving as a member of the Academic Advisory Board

Being a member of the Academic Advisory Board is an opportunity to contribute to a new and ambitious initiative advancing Open Science. You will be part of a growing community of meta-research specialists, influencing the research agenda on Open Science and helping to ensure that Open Science policies are evidence-based. Members will be duly acknowledged via the GRIOS communication channels.

Selection criteria

• The candidates should be able to demonstrate expertise in one or more of the following areas: metascience, metaresearch, Open Science/Research/Knowledge, systematic and/or scoping reviews, research on research, research on open research, research on science policy, research on Open Science policy, science advice, scholarly communication,  scientometrics, bibliometrics, sociology of science, research ethics, reproducibility, science communication. 
• The candidates are expected to have experience with academic advisory roles or research governance. 
• The candidates should hold current or former affiliation with a university, research institute, research programme, relevant NGO/IGO, charity, learned society or association.

Terms of appointment

• Capacity: The members of the Academic Advisory Board serve in a personal capacity.
• Term: The appointment is initially for 2 years and may be extended.
• Representativity: GRIOS is committed to including members from diverse geographic regions, academic disciplines, languages and genders, to reflect a wide range of perspectives and promote inclusive representation. We therefore encourage applications from all parts of the world. Note, however, that the working language of GRIOS is English.
• Compensation: The work of the Academic Advisory Board is voluntary and not remunerated, but travel costs related to the AAB function will be covered.
• Support: The Academic Advisory Board’s work will be supported by the GRIOS secretariat.
• Conflict of interest: Since the members of the Academic Advisory Board will be involved in selecting the researchers performing remunerated review work commissioned by GRIOS, they will therefore be ineligible to perform such work for GRIOS themselves.

Work and time commitment

• Meetings: we anticipate at least one in-person meeting/year (if needed) and 3-4 remote meetings of maximum 2 hours each. We will aim to accommodate different time zones as best we can.
• Review assessment: Reading and evaluating one or two systematic review reports, approximately 5 hours/report.
• Other: Email correspondence between meetings.

Application process and timeline

If you are interested in applying, please fill in the online application form by Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 23:59 CET.

The final selection of the AAB members is expected during the week of 15 December 2025.

For inquiries about this call, please contact Nora Papp-Le Roy (npappleroy@esf.org).