Yesterday I attend the Rethinking UK Research Funding conference at the University of Manchester. We had quite a full day with plenty of interesting talks and discussion. Since I’m starting some substantive work on this question now I kept some detailed notes during the course of the day, and I’m posting my thoughts here in case anyone finds it interesting.
I’m going to start by summarising the contents of the talks in the morning sessions.
Prof Adisa Adapagic, University of Manchester
Adisa opened the day with a look at how short-term funding affects research outcomes and integrity. On a broader level, we know that the short-term nature of research finding has a number of effects on our research efforts:
- Proposal preparation becomes a major time sink
- Finding good researchers to join your projects can be difficult
- The short timelines mean you may have a steep learning curve to climb in…
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Rethinking UK Research Funding 