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Category Archives: University culture
How useful is reading examples of successful grant applications?
This article is prompted by a couple of twitter conversations around a Times Higher Education article which quotes Ross Mounce, founding editor of Research Ideas and Outcomes, who argues for open publication at every stage of the research process, including … Continue reading
Getting research funding: the significance of significance
In a excellent recent blog post, Lachlan Smith wrote about the “who cares?” question that potential grant applicants ought to consider, and that research development staff ought to pose to applicants on a regular basis. Why is this research important, … Continue reading
ESRC success rates 2014/2015 – a quick and dirty commentary
The ESRC has issued its annual report and accounts for the financial year 2014/15, and they don’t make good reading. As predicted by Brian Lingley and Phil Ward back in January on the basis of the figures from the July … Continue reading
ESRC – sweeping changes to the standard grants scheme
The ESRC have just announced a huge change to their standard grants scheme, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s going to prove somewhat controversial. At the moment, it’s possible to apply to the ESRC Standard Grant Scheme … Continue reading
Using Social Media to Support Research Management – ARMA training and development event
Last week I gave a brief presentation at a training and development event organised by ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) entitled ‘Using Social Media to Support Research Management’. Also presenting were Professor Andy Miah of the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Career Young Researchers, Research Impact, Social Media, University culture
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Grant Writing Mistakes part 94: The “Star Wars”
Have you seen Star Wars? Even if you haven’t, you might be aware of the iconic opening scene, and in particular the scrolling text that begins “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away….” (Incidentally, this means that … Continue reading
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ESRC success rates 2013/2014
The ESRC Annual Report for 2013-14 has been out for quite a while now, and a quick summary and analysis from me is long overdue. Although I was tempted to skip straight through all of the good news stories about … Continue reading
Pre-mortems: Tell me why your current grant application or research project will fail
I came across a really interesting idea the other day week via the Freakonomics podcast – the idea of a project “pre-mortem” or “prospective hindsight” They interviewed Gary Klein who described it as follows: KLEIN: I need you to be … Continue reading
Posted in Application advice, Funding, Funding Policy, University culture
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MOOCing about: My experience of a massively open online course
I’ve just completed my first Massively Open Online Course (or MOOC) entitled ‘The mind is flat: the shocking shallowness of human psychology run via the Futurelearn platform. It was run by Professor Nick Chater and PhD student Jess Whittlestone of … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Public Sector, Research Impact, University culture
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Adam Golberg announces new post about Ministers inserting themselves into research grant announcements
Here’s something I’ve been wondering recently. Is it just me, or have major research council funding announcements started to be made by government ministers, rather than by the, er, research councils? Here’s a couple of examples that caught my eye … Continue reading
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