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Strategic Developments at UKRI
The new super-research council (in UK terms) UKRI that acts as an umbrella organisation – sitting above the seven research councils plus Innovate UK and Research England – launched its Strategic Prospectus a few days ago. Not so much a … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Science, Science Funding
Tagged Horizon2020, interdisciplinarity, Nurse Review, place
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Beyond the Silo Mentality
I have been fretting about the challenges of appropriately evaluating interdisciplinary work for many years. My specific beef has been about grant assessment in the Research Councils at the interface between physics and biology, because that is where my research … Continue reading
How Broad is Broad?
Most conferences provide food for thought and my participation this week in the Global Scholars Symposium in Cambridge certainly fulfilled my expectations in this respect. Although I was meant to be the one doing the talking, there was also time … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture, Science Policy
Tagged career paths, interdisciplinarity
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Scientific Breadth: The Good and the Bad
This week I am giving three different major talks; no, not just ‘different’, utterly and totally different. This is definitely a week of diversity in my powerpoint presentations, though none of them is actually about diversity. Linking in to a … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Science, Research, Science Culture
Tagged career progression, interdisciplinarity, promotion
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