Motion
- Motion title
- Engineering and Physics Research Council (EPSRC) funding applications
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2009
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- L7
- Motion text
HESC condemns the decision of the Engineering and Physics Research Council (EPSRC) to make it more difficult to apply for research funding by rejecting uninvited resubmissions of proposals and excluding repeatedly unsuccessful applicants from submitting proposals to EPSRC for 12 months and asking them to take part in a mentoring programme.
HESC believes that this will be discriminatory and makes unfounded assumptions that lack of success in research applications is based (solely) on poor quality of research rather than other factors.
Shamefully, a member of EPSRC council (Head of UCEA Wakeham) made the following totally inappropriate comment 'It is the chemists who are mostly complaining, and it is the chemists who produce most of the applications that fail'.
Consequently, we call for Bill Wakeham's removal from EPSRC council and from UCEA.
HESC agrees to put pressure on EPSRC to change its policy and remove barriers to submission of research grants.
- Proposing body
- University of Leeds
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/H/05-28/080/L7