Newfoundlander. International Development Research Manager @UofGlasgow. Opinions my own and mostly related to cats, randomness & occasional work-adjacent stuff.
Mar 15, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
The cuts to @UKRI_News#GCRF are disastrous. While the gov't is not wrong that the UK will still be a significant source of aid funds, the cuts to research threaten to undo so much of what has been accomplished in the past 5 years and leave the UK worse off. 1/
Since 2016, @UofGlasgow has used our annual allocation of @GCRF from the @ScotFundCouncil to run our GCRF Small Grants Fund. We've funded 184 unique initiatives in 306 partners across 54 countries. 49% of those were led by female PIs, 39% by our early career researchers. 2/
