This article reflects on the growing influence of AI in the grant proposal process and considers how to adapt to the homogenisation of language an over-dependence on AI-generated text might cause, through “the hook”.
For research managers and administrators, understanding AI’s evolution and its implications is now not just a matter of curiosity, but a professional necessity in navigating the future of research and innovation across all academic disciplines.
First NERC and then the British Academy, and then the Wellcome Trust with their recent research culture call. The use of (partial) randomisation in allocating research funding seems to be on the rise.
So the dust has now settled on the 7 September 2023 announcement by the Government that the UK will re-join Horizon Europe on 1 January 2024. Or has it?
After many years of will-they won’t-they, we finally have the news that the UK has officially joined the Horizon Europe programme as an associated country.
Organisations are increasingly looking for new ways to improve equality, diversity and inclusion within research. One way they are doing this is by combining their efforts through the EDIS coalition.
Research support professionals have a crucial role to play in decolonising international research partnerships.
The very name of this magazine, The Protagonist, points to something we all know implicitly but don’t often state directly: story is central to how we imagine the world, including how we imagine our professional lives and work.
