Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation

Author:

Chen Christine Yifeng12ORCID,Kahanamoku Sara S3ORCID,Tripati Aradhna245ORCID,Alegado Rosanna A6ORCID,Morris Vernon R7ORCID,Andrade Karen2,Hosbey Justin8ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Chemical and Isotopic Signatures Group, Division of Nuclear and Chemical Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2. Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, University of California, Los Angeles

3. Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley

4. Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles

5. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol

6. Department of Oceanography and Sea Grant College Program, Daniel K Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

7. School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University

8. Department of City and Regional Planning, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

Concerns about systemic racism at academic and research institutions have increased over the past decade. Here, we investigate data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a major funder of research in the United States, and find evidence for pervasive racial disparities. In particular, white principal investigators (PIs) are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs. Funding rates for white PIs have also been increasing relative to annual overall rates with time. Moreover, disparities occur across all disciplinary directorates within the NSF and are greater for research proposals. The distributions of average external review scores also exhibit systematic offsets based on PI race. Similar patterns have been described in other research funding bodies, suggesting that racial disparities are widespread. The prevalence and persistence of these racial disparities in funding have cascading impacts that perpetuate a cumulative advantage to white PIs across all of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Funder

National Science Foundation

David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Publisher

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd

Subject

General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience

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