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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">I think that the way the funding research schemes work probably need to be explained to the voting public, as do the implications for this huge change, which extend well beyond stopping 'pure' research
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Would be great to see mainstream media cover this change, which has strategically occurred when Parliament has finished sitting and everyone is on annual leave, trying not to catch COVID while xmas
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">The government are taking $75 million away from of 'pure' research (DPs) to invest in LPs through research on:</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">- Recyling and clean energy</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">These research areas already have other specific schemes allocated to them, and money its being taken away from inventive research (including all arts, humanities and social sciences funding) to focus
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">This is about more than the culture wars - the implications for society and education are huge, and I think we all need to rally against these changes. I have included links to some industry specific
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The council has also been slow to reform the widely criticised research assessment exercises, and its work has been subject to political interference including ministerial grant vetoes and the revelation that it was “keeping files” on academics. Meanwhile ARC
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<div>Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow 2017-2021</div>
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