Research Essentials

Like Rebecca in her Time Wasters post, I too applied for a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship. The bid went in in November 2011, and I had set up collaborations with 4 other academic institutions. Like Rebecca, my bid was unsuccessful. In their response, The British Academy highlighted the high level of competition: One of the [...]

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Why do some funders demand the investment of so much effort and provide such a poor return for most?

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Life is getting tough in the world of academia, with fewer funding calls and more competition for those that are available. The Institute of Education Technology (IET) is putting in a huge number of bids in January, about 12 I think. Those involved have been working day, night and weekends to get the bids written, [...]

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British Academy devotes approximately £630,000 of university funding to making 855 early-career researchers feel depressed.

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This workshop was facilitated by Robert Sunders & Anne Adams. It was a combination of workshop activities where we put together titles and abstracts for a bid which we then pitched to the group for comment. Listening to the abstracts from others from different disciplines was very interesting and getting an informed critique from Robert [...]

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