I would love to see it if you ever do. Or if you think universities are un-reformable, I would also love to know. I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself after tenure.
Yes agree. However, it isn't controlled in the way specified/outlined by Crawford. For example, its still very much organised by Principal Investigators. I'll add some comments to clarify this, good point!
Hi James, I really enjoyed this! Please keep it up!
Have you considered doing a post on how we can reform universities?
Very kind of you to say :) On the latter, it's not on near term horizon.
I would love to see it if you ever do. Or if you think universities are un-reformable, I would also love to know. I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself after tenure.
On block funding - in the UK a substantial minority (not quite half) of government research funding is distributed as block funding, to groups of researchers in the form of institutions. https://www.ukri.org/publications/explainer-dual-support-funding-for-uk-research-and-innovation/explainer-dual-support-funding-for-research-and-innovation/
This comes with its own set of side-effects (in the form of REF)...
Yes agree. However, it isn't controlled in the way specified/outlined by Crawford. For example, its still very much organised by Principal Investigators. I'll add some comments to clarify this, good point!