Policy implications for the implementation of research grant payment mechanisms to PHD students as the full-time researchers

Document Type : Research Paper

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Associate Professor, Department of Science and Research Policy, National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

PhD students in the best higher education systems in the world are known as researchers. Also PhD students receive salaries for this scientific effort. The funding system for PhD students in the best universities is an important subject. In Iran, PhD students like undergraduate students, are not full-time researchers. For this reason, it is difficult to put the research activities of PhD students in the universities in the direction of solving problems, focusing on needs and responding to demands, and the applicability of research results in this academic period is limited in Iran. In this research, based on the case study method and with data collection tools such as interviews with experts and previous studies, the policy requirements presented for implementing the grant-based financing system from the financial sources of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. In the policy model presented in this article, 14 policy requirements are presented in the three dimensions of research allocation mechanisms, stable financing, and identification and evaluation of grant-based research projects. There are 4 requirements related to how to stabilize financial resources for research allocation, 6 requirements related to how to allocate available financial resources to the research activities of PhD students, and 4 policy requirements related to identifying and evaluating projects which attracted grant.

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