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I said funding was internal. This meant the director secured generous funding for the whole institute from the usual sources. Individual researchers were not a
by nextos 4y ago
I said funding was internal. This meant the director secured generous funding for the whole institute from the usual sources.
Individual researchers were not allowed to spend their time writing grant applications, everything was provided by the institute with the core funding I mentioned above.
I think this is quite important as, in modern Academia, most professors spend the majority of their time bidding and lobbing for grant money.
- cameldrv 4y agoOk yes, this makes perfect sense. I've observed the same thing in academia. For the professors I've seen, even when they're not bidding and lobbying for grant money, they're often doing research that is not necessarily what they really want to do or that they could make the greatest scientific impact doing. Instead, they often contort their research to make it at least appear that they are advancing the scientific agenda of their funder.