The NIHR has recently announced a merger of two major research programmes: from January 2012 the Health Services Research programme and the Service Delivery and Organisation programme will merge to form the new Health Services and Delivery Research programme. The…
Guardian Live Chat: the Future of Research Funding
This lunchtime I’ll be part of a panel for the Guardian Higher Education Network’s live chat: Live chat: Securing research funding (Friday 9th Sept, 1-4pm) This week’s discussion will focus on research funding and the skills researchers (and research support…
EPSRC Delivery Plan 2011-2015
In line with other research councils, EPSRC released its Delivery Plan for 2011 – 2015 [PDF] in late December 2010. These documents set out the research councils’ strategic priorities for the next four years – i.e. the anticipated duration of the…
British Academy Future Funding Strategy
The British Academy have recently announced a review of the way they fund research, in line with other strategy documents and delivery plans published by the research councils last month. This review covers the same time period as the research…