Sam Crawley on Nostr: Staggering that the NZ govt has announced the end of funding for social science and ...

Staggering that the NZ govt has announced the end of funding for social science and humanities research from our main academic fund (Marsden). Science projects now also need to show economic benefits.

This change has happened seemingly without consultation or even signalling that it's coming. Many hours will now be wasted with researchers revising or throwing away the proposals they've been working on. Apart from anything, this is terrible governance.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/marsden-fund-refocused-science-purpose

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