{"id":104,"date":"2009-09-17T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-09-17T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:11:51","slug":"research-grants-nosedive-time-for-a-creative-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2009\/09\/17\/research-grants-nosedive-time-for-a-creative-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Grants Nosedive \u2013 time for a creative response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thus, Times Higher Education [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=407989\">THE<\/a> ] reported the increasingly small chance that researchers now have of squeezing cash out of six research councils. \u00a0Across the piece, applicants have a 23% chance of funding, and the figure is less than 20% for two of the councils (AHRC &amp; ESRC). \u00a0 Two many desperate people chasing too little money, it seems, and probably too little internal scrutiny to make sure than only high quality applications leave the institution. \u00a0Those of us at the sharp end of this didn't need the THE to tell us about it, of course, but the full figures are illuminating.<\/p>\n<p>Time for some creative thinking, perhaps, so here's an idea for the research councils. \u00a0Charge universities for making bids. \u00a0Those who are successful get it back; those who aren't, don't. \u00a0Instead it gets added to the sums available for research. \u00a0But how much should it be? \u00a0It might differ, of course, from council to council, it might be a % of the grant total (a sort of \u00a0grant value tax at 10%), or a fixed sum so as not to disincentivise large bids (\u00a310,000 a go perhaps). \u00a0As for outcomes, well, uncertain as ever, of course, and probably perverse, but universities might well change their bidding habits. \u00a0NB, this is not to be seen as an alternative to increasing the amount of funding for research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus, Times Higher Education [ THE ] reported the increasingly small chance that researchers now have of squeezing cash out of six research councils. \u00a0Across the piece, applicants have a 23% chance of funding, and the figure is less than...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}