Sevenfold weighting boost for New Zealand indigenous research

This article presupposes that the PBRF is some reliable and effective system for rewarding 'high-quality' research. These auditing exercises (PBRF, REF, etc.) are a proven waste of time and money, biased and damaging to research and academics. Just think: we could get even more funding to indigenous researchers if we just canned the PBRF and employed some sane means to distribute this money! The PBRF exercise consumes an astonishing amount of money and researcher time, which comes at the expense of actual productive research and provides the very opposite of what it claims to encourage (see: perverse incentives). But, alas, a small group masquerading as allies of a noble agenda will now manipulate the game's rules to make themselves the winners of PBRF 2025---it's the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy. Just speak to the academics who must endure this PBRF nonsense, who universally (indigenous and non-indigenous researchers alike) agree it's an abomination.