Benedikte Moltumyr Høgberg, professor at UiO’s Department of Public and International Law, is not afraid of raising her voice. In January, she harshly reprimanded the Norwegian Research Council: ‘Today’s guidelines and incentives are based on two costly principles: bureaucracy and Hobbes’ state of nature.’ Talking to Forskerforum, she states that the application criteria lead to a huge number of poor projects. The Council’s representative, Fridtjof Fossum Unander, finds much of the criticism unjustified. ‘We must ensure that funded research is on a par with international developments.’
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