ABSTRACT
This chapter resorts to various types of data sources and techniques, in order to get a more complete picture of the research produced as a direct result of European funding. The quantitative analyses on researchers comprise statistical data on 12 countries and six disciplines. In contrast to excluding too many right from the beginning, an extended scope of comparison is more likely to identify anticipated knowledge divides among geopolitical territories and scientific fields. The sample is limited to six countries and three disciplines, however, for a qualitative, fine-grained examination of funding effects on the existing social structure of science. The quantitative sample comprises six disciplines that in total represent 40 per cent of all European Research Council (ERC) panels, the latter designating settings of evaluators' expertise that circumscribe neighbour (sub-)fields of science. Interviews are the most important way to illuminate researchers' decisions that usually cannot be obtained from any other sources.
