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For example, if you think USAID’s projects sound ghastly, you will be horrified by what the our own government-sponsored quango UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) spends money on. Many Brits will have never heard of it despite being charged £9 billion per year for its work. UKRI is responsible for handing out grants to universities, which it does through its nine subsidiaries — all dedicated to different academic areas. Not all of these are bad, of course, with the UKRI supporting important medical, scientific and technological research. It’s just that its value tends to be let down by its more fluffy wings, such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Economic and Social Research Council. Take the awarding of £668,244 in taxpayer-funded grants to a four-year study titled “Pregnant Men: An International Exploration of Trans Male Experiences and Practices of Reproduction”. Sadly, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The AHRC is by far the most ridiculous subsidiary of the UKRI, with taxpayers charged £207 million for its work between 2022 and 25. Below are examples of the “research” it has funded, including active projects:
The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000 – Birmingham City University (£841,830) Cuteness In Contemporary Environmental Culture: Developing Ecopoetic Practice (£120,766) Queerness in nineteenth-century transatlantic spiritualism (approx £20k per year — a Phd) In Our Own Words: Documenting Everyday Lives of Queer People in Central Asia (£34,611) (De)colonial Ecologies in 21st-century insular Hispanic Caribbean film (£205,543) Comics and Race in Latin America (£759,293) Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse) (£805,769) Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives (£136,909) Make no mistake — these are not anomalies but closely representative of AHRC research, which is why the quango should be completely cut.
For example, if you think USAID’s projects sound ghastly, you will be horrified by what the our own government-sponsored quango UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) spends money on. Many Brits will have never heard of it despite being charged £9 billion per year for its work. UKRI is responsible for handing out grants to universities, which it does through its nine subsidiaries — all dedicated to different academic areas. Not all of these are bad, of course, with the UKRI supporting important medical, scientific and technological research. It’s just that its value tends to be let down by its more fluffy wings, such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Economic and Social Research Council. Take the awarding of £668,244 in taxpayer-funded grants to a four-year study titled “Pregnant Men: An International Exploration of Trans Male Experiences and Practices of Reproduction”. Sadly, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The AHRC is by far the most ridiculous subsidiary of the UKRI, with taxpayers charged £207 million for its work between 2022 and 25. Below are examples of the “research” it has funded, including active projects:
The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000 – Birmingham City University (£841,830) Cuteness In Contemporary Environmental Culture: Developing Ecopoetic Practice (£120,766) Queerness in nineteenth-century transatlantic spiritualism (approx £20k per year — a Phd) In Our Own Words: Documenting Everyday Lives of Queer People in Central Asia (£34,611) (De)colonial Ecologies in 21st-century insular Hispanic Caribbean film (£205,543) Comics and Race in Latin America (£759,293) Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse) (£805,769) Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives (£136,909) Make no mistake — these are not anomalies but closely representative of AHRC research, which is why the quango should be completely cut.