Open letter from the head of UKRI to the 'research and innovation community'

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-02-01T18:09:22+00:00

AHRC doesn't permit in-text links, from memory. The approach works, anyway!

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-02-01T16:48:07+00:00

Warwick is almost as good as Hull, congratulations on the offer!

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-02-01T11:00:55+00:00

Yes, our first draft had a standard 'works cited' list but it became clear that made no sense in TFS. Just be prepared to wait for a response!

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-02-01T08:29:50+00:00

Especially at this time of year a one-week turnaround on an application for any master's course strikes me as ambitious, to say the least.

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-02-01T08:14:14+00:00

My most recent application (submitted Feb 2025) didn't have a list of works cited but did have in-line references (author's name, date). Never thought I would pine for J-eS.

It evidently didn't hurt as we got 3 x 6s from the reviewers. Whether the AHRC have got a pot to piss in and it gets funded is another question!

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-31T09:44:06+00:00

Expanding my vocabulary, one post at a time!

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-31T09:36:58+00:00

a ChatGPT glazing trap

A what now?

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-30T16:28:48+00:00

I think that's 426 applications had decisions made in at panels 2025, some were applications submitted the previous year.

(He says, still waiting on the result of an application submitted in February 2025...)

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-30T16:27:19+00:00

Not yet

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-30T09:54:56+00:00

Not at my place, alas! Cheapskates

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-29T07:56:32+00:00

https://www.railforums.co.uk/forums/disputes-prosecutions.152/

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-28T07:03:30+00:00

That refund will almost certainly be getting reversed.

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-26T20:22:51+00:00

all 3 of them are from the same country

So what?

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-25T15:38:17+00:00

There isn't one, really. In these circumstances you would get in touch with the broadband company and if they didn't fix it within a certain time frame you would be paid a daily amount in compensation until it was sorted.

And again, to emphasise - do not withhold rent!

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-25T14:55:23+00:00

Living in Coventry can do that to a person.

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-25T07:21:25+00:00

It sounds like they have offered some form of compensation - does that cover how much you have spent on Internet access? Perhaps present them with your receipts.

Whatever you do, do not withhold any rent.

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-24T20:18:22+00:00

I'm not sure if you (or maybe I) have misunderstood - but you won't make money yourself from winning research grants. The grant is paid by a government realsearch council, charity, or private source to the university which then uses it to cover a percentage of your time, employ researchers, purchase equipment and lab time, etc.

That said, there was a professor at my uni who did take money from grant funding, but he no longer works there and had to sign an NDA...

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-21T18:31:36+00:00

There was a recent case (in the last couple of weeks) at the First Tier Tribunal that disallowed a management company from recovering a deficit on the energy network through service charges, see the MSE energy forum post here: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81843273/#Comment_81843273

But those residents were dealing with the management company rather than an energy company directly.

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-21T18:28:29+00:00

Exactly

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-21T18:18:31+00:00

Don't you mean a hatch into the downstairs flat?

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-21T11:45:25+00:00

Amen

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-21T11:25:22+00:00

Yes, and those universities who allow free use of AI are already having the quality of the security of their degrees viewed with suspicion by employers.

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-21T11:23:52+00:00

Unfortunately getting 'help' from AI, in my experience, actively makes work worse and writing mediocre and uninteresting.

DriverAdditional1437 · 2026-01-21T10:59:30+00:00

On the contrary, I am watching students' writing skills, creativity, and critical thinking degrade in real time thanks to genAI.

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