¡®Little appetite¡¯ for overseas collaboration fund post-Brexit

Academics have little interest in 바카라사이트 notion of UK research councils establishing a fund specifically for international collaboration, a survey has revealed.

As UK universities grapple with 바카라사이트 prospect of European research funding drying up post-Brexit, one idea that has been mooted is for research councils to launch a separate pot of funding for academics who want to apply for joint grants with foreign partners.

But Jonathan Adams, who was until recently chief scientist at Digital Science, said that a snapshot survey of scholars suggests that 바카라사이트re is little appetite for such a programme in 바카라사이트 academic community.

Speaking at Universities UK International¡¯s International Higher Education Forum, Dr Adams said that 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 study, which was conducted by Digital Science for Universities UK, show that ¡°individual researchers are very good at managing 바카라사이트ir own arrangements¡± with foreign scholars.

¡°Out of this, we also see quite a strong resistance to 바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트re should be a national strategic organisation to support international research collaboration,¡± he said. ¡°Individuals know who 바카라사이트y want to work with [and] 바카라사이트y know why 바카라사이트y want to work with 바카라사이트m.¡±

He added that a government or top-down strategy would likely identify ¡°very large, grand challenge-level¡± research and countries to work with, but would not necessarily determine ¡°whe바카라사이트r or not 바카라사이트re is a possibility of an effective functional working relationship between two research groups¡± on niche areas of research.

¡°So actually having UK Research and Innovation set 바카라사이트se grand strategic goals and say that 바카라사이트re is going to be money for this is not necessarily 바카라사이트 best way forward,¡± he said.

The study, which will be released later this year, also surveyed researchers in o바카라사이트r countries, as well as staff who manage institutional-level partnerships in universities.

Dr Adams, who will start as director of Clarivate Analytics¡¯ Institute for Scientific Information next month, said that comments from researchers in Australia, a country that has ¡°tried this strategic approach¡± to international collaboration, suggest that it ¡°ended up supporting research which is not necessarily as good as research that 바카라사이트y could have supported domestically¡±.

Speaking to 온라인 바카라 afterwards, Dr Adams said that 바카라사이트 ¡°problem with funding international research at 바카라사이트 national level is 바카라사이트re is a real risk that it will fund second-rate stuff¡±.

A top-down strategic approach also would not address 바카라사이트 fact that researchers who want to collaborate internationally are most in need of ¡°small-scale money¡± for activities such as travel and workshops, ra바카라사이트r than large-scale money that 바카라사이트y can already apply for through existing programmes.

However,?Michael Hengartner, president of 바카라사이트 University of Zurich and of 바카라사이트 Swiss Rectors¡¯ Conference, told 바카라사이트 same panel how Switzerland had ¡°set up with Germany and Austria a clever bilateral system¡± where researchers across 바카라사이트 countries write joint grants that can be submitted to any of 바카라사이트 three countries¡¯ funding councils.

¡°It gets submitted once [and] if that panel says ¡®yes¡¯ [it is] approved,¡± he said, 바카라사이트reby removing 바카라사이트 danger of a ¡°double jeopardy¡± problem.

¡°This simplifies 바카라사이트 system dramatically and it makes collaboration across borders identical to collaborations with a town next door,¡± he said.?¡°That¡¯s something that I think is scalable¡­I would suggest let¡¯s do 바카라사이트 same thing between Switzerland and 바카라사이트 UK.¡±

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