Research Governance in the Wake of a Merger

Internal Criteria for Project Funding

The focus of this paper is on fairness, governance and peer-review in the internal distribution of research funds in a national university after a merger between two universities that differed in size and function. In the national university, distributive fairness was maintained but there were flaws in procedural fairness (Mallard, Lamont & Guetzkow, 2009). The larger university did not take into account research governance and procedures developed in the smaller university.