Merle Jacob is Professor of Research Policy at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. Merle’s research is currently focused on research funding as a priority setting mechanism for among other things renorming and reorganising research. My most recent pulications include:

• Hellström, T., Jacob, M. Claiming Relevance for Social Science and the Humanities: Relevance Expressions Across Methodological Divides. Minerva (2024). https://doi-org.ludwig.lub.lu.se/10.1007/s11024-024-09561-z
• Jacob, Merle, and Tomas Hellström. 2023 “Affording Excellence: What Does Excellence Funding Do for Researchers?” Policy Studies, pp 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2267458.
• Thomas D. Nedeva, M., Tirado, MM and Jacob, M. (2020) Changing research on research evaluation: A critical literature review to revisit the agenda, Research Evaluation, Volume 29, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 275–288, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaa008