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17 Apr, 18 tweets, 14 min read
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. 👇🏼💚👏🏼
Here with @PoultryHub you are shake your head in disbelief that we would cut our understanding of food systems by 68% #odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts 👇🏼
This 🧵 by @EvolveDotZoo increases the intensity of head shaking/ jaw on the floor incredulity 👇🏼 #odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts 👇🏼🙏🏾
Here’s a Telegraph editorial
Piece here in @ConversationUK on Global National Embarrassment that is the cutting of vital, conflict transformational research #gcrfcuts #odacuts #ukricuts from @hflowe & colleagues
This is Chris Pattern in @FT “Most immediately worrying is a 70 per cent reduction in 2021-22 Official Development Assistance, the overseas aid budget used to support joint research projects with universities in developing countries.” #Odacuts #ukricuts
👉🏼on.ft.com/39RyGyD
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Reminder of Call out from @ASAUK_News with @royafrisoc for examples of how U.K. Government’s #ODAcuts are affecting research #gcrfcuts #ukricuts
Here’s @ResProfNews first announcement that all the guarantees Hub Directors had been receiving about their future being secure in face of #odacuts #gcrfcuts was a pack of lies #ukricuts

👉🏼tinyurl.com/zrbyzc6a
And a reminder that this news landed on 31st March - as the holidays of Passover & Easter were beginning, with a deadline of 3 weeks, during School holidays and University holidays, start of Ramadan & the Orthodox Christian period of fasting. 3 weeks! #ukricuts #gcrfcuts #odacuts
Here’s @UrbanRiskHub hub just making sure that in the midst of the #gcrfcuts the work continues 👇🏼 #odacuts #ukricuts
Rounding off this 🧵 of media, protest & evidence as I started - with @heavencrawley PI @MIDEQHub utter incredulity - shared by so many - as #uKRI made new calls for ‘Policy-based evidence making’ in the same week it cut our #GCRF FLAGSHIP (their word not ours 🙄) by 70%
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Alison Phipps ኣልሰን Profile picture
16 Apr
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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Alison Phipps ኣልሰን Profile picture
16 Apr
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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31 Mar
“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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Alison Phipps ኣልሰን Profile picture
29 Mar
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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26 Mar
“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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25 Mar
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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