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Category Archives: University culture
Applying for research funding – is it worth it?
A version of this article first appeared in Funding Insight on 6th March 2018 and is reproduced with kind permission of Research Professional. For more articles like this, visit www.researchprofessional.com Success rates are low and applications are more and more … Continue reading
USS Pensions Strike – Could deliberative democracy be a way out of the impasse?
My headline, unfortunately, is a classic QTWTAIN (‘question to which the answer is no’) because I can’t see any evidence that the employers want to negotiate or seek alternatives or engage in any meaningful way. You can find an admirably … Continue reading
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My fictional heroes of research development (and perhaps university management more generally)
Consider this post a bit of an early Christmas indulgence, by which I mean largely ignore it.. As an undergraduate, I was very taken with Aristotelian ethics, and in particular ideas about character and about exemplars of moral excellences and … Continue reading
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Prêt-à-non-portability? Implications and possible responses to the phasing out of publication portability
Last week Recently, I attended an Open Forum Events one day conference with the slightly confusing title ‘Research Impact: Strengthening the Excellence Framework‘ and gave a short presentation with the same title as this blog post. It was a very interesting … Continue reading
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Initial Reactions to HEFCE’s ‘Initial decisions on REF 2021’
This lunchtime HEFCE have announced some more “Initial Decisions” on REF 2021, which I’ve summarised below. Slightly frustratingly, the details are scattered across a few documents, and it’s easy to miss some of them. There’s an exec summary, a circular … Continue reading
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Mistakes in Grant Writing, part 95 – “The Gollum”
A version of this article first appeared in Funding Insight on 20th July 2017 and is reproduced with kind permission of Research Professional. For more articles like this, visit www.researchprofessional.com * * * * * * * * * * … Continue reading
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“Once more unto the breach” – Should I resubmit my unsuccessful research grant application?
This article first appeared in Funding Insight on 11th May 2017 and is reproduced with kind permission of Research Professional. For more articles like this, visit www.researchprofessional.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * … Continue reading
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‘Unimaginative’ research funding models and picking winners
Times Higher Education recently published an interesting article by Donald Braben and endorsed by 36 eminent scholars including a number of nobel laureates. They criticise “today’s academic research management” and claim that as an unforeseen consequence, “exciting, imaginative, unpredictable research … Continue reading
Posted in ESRC, Funding, Funding Policy, Public Sector, Research Costs, University culture
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HEFCE publishes ‘Consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021)’
In my previous post I wrote about the Stern Review, and in particular the portability issue – whereby publications remained with the institution where they were written, rather than moving institutions with the researcher – which seemed by some distance … Continue reading
The Stern Review – Publications, Portability, and Panic
The Stern Review on the future of the REF is out today, and there are any number of good summaries of the key recommendations that you can read. You could also follow the #sternreview hashtag on Twitter, or read it … Continue reading