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The indefatigable ⁦⁦@willrworley⁩ has put together a tracker will details of programmes affected by #ODA cut. It includes initial list from March 11 #UKRIcuts . If your project has been cut please let him know #gcrfcuts devex.com/news/tracking-…
This list @UKRI_News #GCRF cuts on @willrworley tracker picked up to date

Programs affected:
• Research and development into technology to purify dirty water (The Guardian)
• Mapping natural disaster risk in lower income communities (The Guardian)
• Research and development for infectious disease diagnostics (Independent)
• A refugee integration project run by Professor Alison Phipps. (Devex interview)
• Reducing homicide in Latin America (The Guardian)
• Migration for Development and Equality
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Thread 🧵 of more #GCRFcuts media, protest, the great work 💚analysis & actions from last week or so 👇🏼#ODAcuts #UKRIcuts starting with @heavencrawley @MIDEQHub
And here is a 🧵 from former challenge lead @lhammondsoas after she resigned in protest #gcrfcuts
The good folk @GCRFWaterHub have lots of great examples of the vital work they are doing - give them a follow. It’s amazing how much you will learn. 👇🏼💚👏🏼
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Today was the day #UKRI required my University and hundreds of others to submit their decisions on what to cut, how hard and what to terminate.

And required this with a timescale of 3 weeks which included Easter, Ramadan, Passover, up to Orthodox Easter. And school holidays.
To all the research and finance staff, PIs, Co-Is, and University leaders who have worked flat out to find ways of responding with integrity to this unprecedented situation and who have just been colleagues - thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 we still have far to go. But it’s made a difference.
For #GCRF hubs deadline looms next week. So more pain ahead. Forthright comments from @heavencrawley & @profrichdawson
on #UKRi letter some PIs have received to send to partners.

“We are not sending it on”

“Too little too late”
tinyurl.com/cxe9wam3
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20 November 2020

#UKRI announced award of 141 new projects under #GCRF all addressing #SDGs

Global challenges being tackled by projects include [d]:
👉🏼environmental disasters
👉🏼education for children living through conflict
👉🏼malnutrition.” #odacuts ukri.org/news/ukri-anno…
Many of these 141 #GCRF award holders had been under strict @beisgovuk imposed embargo on #UKRI for over a year. I know, I was one of them. Delivering during the pandemic meant constant requests to ‘reprofile’ our grants meaning using resource to make projects Covid compliant
Between and in secret because of the embargo we worked out how to ensure partners had access to good enough internet for our partner meetings. This meant investing in and rapidly learning g about mobile technologies #odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts
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“The scrapping of ODA projects will lead to a “loss of trust” in the UK that “will take years to rebuild”, warned Prof Anne Johnson, the president of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

#odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts theguardian.com/science/2021/m…
“Disaster is an overused word but the recently announced cuts in ODA funding for research are exactly that” @kevinmarsh8 ‘a letter below now joining @JoBeall1 @FiddianQasmiyeh @OlivetteOtele @ZoeNorridge & Ayesha Siddiqi in resigning as #GCRF advisors at #UKRI 👇🏼
Unrolled thread here from @lhammondsoas as she ends her contract and resigns from secondment to #UKRI over #odacuts
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Starting new 🧵 on #odacuts #UKRIcuts #gcrfcuts with this

“I wrote,  along with the other National Academies to the Foreign Secretary on the value of ODA-funded research, and again in March to the Chancellor on the need to protect the science budget.”

acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/supe…
SIGN. SIGN. SIGN - this is the easy bit folks

Only a few hundred signatures needed on the #UKRIcuts #odacuts #gcrfcuts Parliament Petition before Govt has to respond 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👏🏼🙌🏾👏🏼
Comment piece in Telegraph from CEO @ICR_London “Slashing research funding is a blow to Global Britain. The Government will do long-term damage if it reduces support for the UK’s university research base.”
(Paywalled)

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…
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“Slashing funding will limit research spending in the UK and may harm the economic recovery.”

Important Op-Ed by @UofGVC⁩: Cuts mean science superpower claim won’t fly ⁦@thetimes⁩ ⁦@UofGlasgow

(paywalled) #odacuts #ukricuts #gcrfcuts thetimes.co.uk/article/cuts-m…
Greg Clark MP has written to PM saying cuts amount to “a devastating reduction which would reverse two years of intended increases and mean that the ambition for Britain to be a science superpower would be deferred for much of this parliament”.(paywalled) thetimes.co.uk/article/devast…
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can you imagine having been awarded a highly competitive grant to carry out a project you've been dreaming of doing for 10 years on a major global pathogen that still kills hundreds of thousands every year. and then halfway through -- #UKRIcuts #ODAcuts #GCRF #gcrfcuts 1/n
have your funding taken away!? this just happened to me. this just happened to us @djimdeab @tonidara @SunilDogga @amtalman. this just happened to HUNDREDS of researchers. devastating for people, for trust, for partnerships, and for science. #UKRIcuts #ODAcuts #GCRF #gcrfcuts 2/n
what kind of funding was it you wonder? maybe from a small charity that has collapsed? NO. unprecedented post-award, take-the-money-back -- this is from the UK's primary funding institutions @UKRI_News @The_MRC. #UKRIcuts #ODAcuts #GCRF #gcrfcuts 3/n
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Everyday since news of #ukricuts #gcrfcuts broke another set of previously unimaginable consequences occur:-
1) end of peer review for grants - it was already on a shoogly peg but who is now going to donate labour to laborious review of proposals - including risk assessments? 😐
2) Applications for funding - it takes two years constant work to go from idea to successful application with success rates low. To do this needs trust that if successful your work will be funded throughout (stage-gated). Right now I can’t imagine why I would EVER apply again.
3/ Partnerships. It takes years to build towards equitable partnerships in contexts of conflict & impoverishment. Some of mine are over 14 years in making. Steady, constant care. This is why they worked. Why they were funded. 1 secretive stroke of a 🇬🇧 pen and ‘poof’ - #ukricuts
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“The University will continue to use all available channels to make the case to reverse these cuts.”
 
Strong Statement from @UofGVC @RachelSandison @cjpearce on #UKRIcuts #odacuts #gcrfcuts

👉🏼 gla.ac.uk/research/az/gc… Image
@UofGVC @RachelSandison @cjpearce @UofGlasgow @UofGEducation @UofGUnescoRILA @kentbuse @UCUScotland @MIDEQHub "This decision undermines the UK’s role in combatting the world’s most pressing challenges...[and] will lead to job losses in the UK and in low- and middle-income countries, with early career staff particularly badly affected." @DrJoGrady @ucu
researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res… (paywalled)
@kentbuse "The government has said the reduction of UK aid spending from 0.7 to 0.5 per cent of gross national income is a temporary measure."
Why such damage to 'National Interest" if temporary?
bit.ly/3tQVk1W by @RobinBisson quote from @kentbuse, @stuarttaberner1 & @DrJoGrady
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On Monday we launched our major £2 million #GCRF #UKRI peace building project. Yesterday the Govt announced cuts to international science the savagery of which has never been seen before, to make war #WDMs ⁦⁦@CMonaghanSNP⁩ ⁦@alisonthewlisstheguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
The savage cuts are taking immediate effect. The length, depth and consequences are as yet unknown but they will result directly in increases in poverty, violence against women & girls & the crumbling of civic cultural institutions - as our research to date shows. #ODAcuts #SDGs
#ODACuts to international science & research budget with our international partners in the global south are estimated at £125million “The MoD has said developing the next generation of Dreadnought submarines to carry the new warhead would cost £30bn plus a £10bn contingency.”
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