Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share their findings and collaborate with each other.
Articles on Research grants
Displaying 1 - 20 of 31 articles
As the National Science Foundation starts giving out fewer grants, people worldwide will potentially lose out from potential research findings that could help improve their lives.
The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.
President Trump’s sudden cuts to hard-won federal grants are disrupting research and forcing scientists to face difficult choices.
Trump’s war on science is threatening even Australian research projects. So why does a growing pot of medical research funds remain unallocated?
It costs money to maintain the various facilities, utilities and personnel that allow scientists to conduct research in the first place. Without federal support, institutions are left scrambling.
A member of a grant review panel explains the ins and outs of applying for research funding – and the consequences of when the process suddenly stops.
Overall, women receive a smaller share of research funding – but it’s not due to how applications are weighed up. The problem starts with the workforce itself.
Researchers are key to Canada’s capacity to create a high-tech economy, build the biomedical sector and seed entrepreneurial activity, but they can’t do it without research funding.
The Coalition government showed a disdain for the arts, humanities and social sciences. The plight of these disciplines requires action from the incoming Labor government on three fronts.
A Senate committee is discussing a bill designed to shore up the independence of the Australian Research Council, after recent high-profile cases of ministers vetoing research grants.
Decisions on research funding are too complex for a pub test. Assessing grant applications requires a high level of expertise and diligence, which the minister simply disregarded.
After years of government rhetoric about boosting the commercial benefits from university research, Australia’s record is still among the worst in the developed world.
Nigeria’s academic community is mourning the death of virology professor and leading researcher, David Olufemi Olaleye.
More funding is needed to galvanise
Nigeria’s health system as medical research is not well funded.
Expectations that academics raise funds themselves and aim to publish in certain ‘quality’ publications are shaping research and where it is published.
Removing funding from research-led projects puts people in highly vulnerable situations.
The rejection culture of academia is damaging. Rejections are inevitable, but there are better ways of managing the process that don’t leave individuals to bear the whole burden of coping.
With a threatening virus sweeping the world, research efforts across sectors have ground to a halt. But one thing is clear: the non-scientific community has never valued research more.
With limited resources and inadequate infrastructure, African universities appear to be under tremendous strain. But some are beating the odds and getting it right.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Iowa
-
Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
-
Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
-
Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
-
Research Fellow in the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University
-
Deputy Vice Chancellor Research & Innovation, Adelaide University
-
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
-
Deputy Director, Neuroscience Research Australia
-
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Flinders University
-
Research Policy Expert in Institutional Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Tshwane University of Technology
-
Professor of Belonging Science, School of Educational Psychology and Inclusion, Faculty of Education, Monash University
-
Honorary Research Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Research Associate at the Office of the Women in STEM Ambassador, UNSW
-
Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
-
Research Fellow in Semiconductor Physics, University of Sheffield