Cue research grant proposal to measure the degree to which researching
whether your research influences economy, public policy or society
accurately reflects the value of its influence on economy, public
policy or society, or the degree to which it is pointless...
On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:38 AM, evan.raskob [lists] wrote:
> "Universities will have to show that their research influences the
> economy, public policy or society"
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> Just another hoop to jump through for us trained seals. Really,
> this whole measure is just pointless - how hard will it be to prove
> that a person's work doesn't affect one of those in some way?
> That's already the case for the big grants, as far I've seen, so
> this is just a false flag news story to distract us from MPs and
> their expense accounts popping up all over like mushrooms after a
> rainy day (still). It has the look of a story that they think will
> make them look fiscally responsible in the face of whacky, left-
> wing, cash-throwing academics, who live to do irrelevant studies
> wasting taxpayer money on bird-shit and how it relates to gender
> politics*, unlike those MPs who would _never_ misspend hard-earned
> tax dollars on anything but DVDs of themselves discussing how not to
> misspend taxpayer money**
>
> Cynically yours,
> Evan
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> * I made this bit up
> ** I didn't make this bit up
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> On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
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>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/sep/23/panel-funding-university-research
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Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 19:22:52 BST