This article reflects on the growing influence of AI in the grant proposal process and considers how to adapt to the homogenisation of language an over-dependence on AI-generated text might cause, through “the hook”.
The UK’s recent association to Horizon Europe means researchers can fully access the funding provided by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). But what do you need to win one of these prestigious grants?
Financial constraints and changes in the UK’s immigration policy have been major challenges for Universities of Sanctuary. These challenges, however, are offset by the considerable benefits that the widening of access to UK universities through sanctuary initiatives can bring, including the building of networks, collaborations and engagement that might never have happened without them.
First NERC and then the British Academy, and then the Wellcome Trust with their recent research culture call. The use of (partial) randomisation in allocating research funding seems to be on the rise.
So the dust has now settled on the 7 September 2023 announcement by the Government that the UK will re-join Horizon Europe on 1 January 2024. Or has it?
After many years of will-they won’t-they, we finally have the news that the UK has officially joined the Horizon Europe programme as an associated country.
