Given that external funding now carries a significance beyond the immediate project funding, we would expect universities to respond to the new incentives by beefing up application support - roles like mine. There goes some of the savings.

Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations

REF: Scrap it or save it? Policy experts debate think tank’s call to replace Research Excellence Framework with lower-cost alternative. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

Gonna be a windy one today, according to the BBC weather app...

Proposed REF replacement ripe for abuse, argues Rachel Persad (Rachel Persad). "The proposal would do nothing to challenge questionable research practices or change behaviour...we should be careful not to dismantle something just for the sake of change." researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

Well, I've been with my current employer for fifteen years. That's a long time and a lot of inflation. It's going to be a big real terms pay cut, right. Oh yes. It's over £10k. Ten Thousand Pounds.