by Charles » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:48 am
by dadndave » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:34 am
by Charles » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:39 am
dadndave wrote:I have no idea what yer referring to here Charles. I suspect something is going over my head here. Is IMPACT an acronym for something?
More generally, I'm quite puzzled why people get so impassioned about attention-seeking by research grant applicants while apparently nursing no suspicions about scientists working quite visibly in the employ of vested interests. Let's face it, private industry is where most science graduates get employed and. if what's going on in Australia is typical (I don't know if it is) then industry is getting more and more say in the direction that post-graduate study and even undergraduate study is heading in the sciences.
by dadndave » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:56 am
by Charles » Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:06 am
dadndave wrote:"All granting" ?
I dunno. Just thinking about the examples I've been most familiar with recently (My son is an honours graduate in nanotechnology and is about to start his PHD)
He has received the benefit some pretty good research grants from both government and private sources in the last year or so.
Very varied projects from research into electrical stimulus of artificial polymers (ie artificial muscles for amputees etc) to special coatings on sheet steel.
So who should pay for what?
by Charles » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:26 pm
2_climbaxes wrote:A thread with no point...perhaps you should add a LIST to make it interesting.
by Buz Groshong » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:21 pm
charles wrote:that´s what it´s about IMPACT. No IMPACT then no research grant! IMPACT is what counts these days if you want research money from the government. IMPACT means financial benefits, practical use, instant success - all those buzz words that the bean counters like to use to justify themeselves! If Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Boyle, Darwin or Einstein were alive today and looking for a research grant from the British government they´d fail the IMPACT test.
by Buz Groshong » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:23 pm
charles wrote:2_climbaxes wrote:A thread with no point...perhaps you should add a LIST to make it interesting.
No point because it´s not about the USA? This is unmoderated isn´t it? Ok then fuck off.
by Fury » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:43 am
by Charles » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:18 am
Fury wrote:Hey Charles, it's true. Buzz words are important in successful grant applications. Solid, neccessary research that doesn't use the latest and greatest technology (and often the latest and greatest is used for the sake of using the latest and greates) is difficult to promote. People making decisions (bean counters) don't have the understanding to properly evaluate the merit of a given research proposal.
by Charles » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:18 am
Working on it.2_climbaxes wrote:truchas wrote:charles wrote:2_climbaxes wrote:A thread with no point...perhaps you should add a LIST to make it interesting.
No point because it´s not about the USA? This is unmoderated isn´t it? Ok then fuck off.
I thought PnP was all about the U.S. because you Euros and wannabe Euros made it that way. Every time I make a post about a Scandinavian country (that's not the U.S. by the way), you guys go berzerk and make a hate America post.
Go easy on Charles Truchas, he's a sensitive Euro type & has the blues today. Turn that frown upside down Charles.
Now how about that impact list???
EDIT :
by Fury » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:46 pm
charles wrote:Fury wrote:Hey Charles, it's true. Buzz words are important in successful grant applications. Solid, neccessary research that doesn't use the latest and greatest technology (and often the latest and greatest is used for the sake of using the latest and greates) is difficult to promote. People making decisions (bean counters) don't have the understanding to properly evaluate the merit of a given research proposal.
Or even the vision that maybe this blue sky stuff might someday give us an advantage that we today cannot even dream about - even if it´s just something abtract.
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