March 13, 2022 Other Open Access

Lee, K.L.

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  <dc:creator>Lee, K.L.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2022-03-13</dc:date>
  <dc:description>This brief explores some of the drivers of precarity that are inherently built-in to our current contestable research funding model; although not by design.  Herein, it is also highlighted why funding research and indeed researchers, 100% from contestable sources, does not reflect the reality of what academic researchers do with their time.  In reality, researchers need to use a % of their time to do research-related (research-support) tasks, career-building tasks as well as research community contributions that are not explicitly described within the research projects that actually supply 100% of their salary.   The system also fails to recognise that research is a continuum of knowledge-building rather than a series of individual research projects.  With no element of stable funding base in the current system, the ability of researchers to carry out knowledge-building is compromised and there is therefore knowledge-loss.  Precarity of our research workforce also drives skill-loss and is subsequently wasting money and resources.  The proposal of a base grant model goes some way to recognise the reality of how research is actually carried out and therefore support a more efficient, flexible system, putting people and their talent first. </dc:description>
  <dc:identifier>https://zenodo.org/record/6350640</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>10.5281/zenodo.6350640</dc:identifier>
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  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>doi:10.5281/zenodo.6350639</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>url:https://zenodo.org/communities/tearapaerangi</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject>Precarity</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Precariat</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Research funding</dc:subject>
  <dc:title>Precarity in academia is tied to the contestable funding model.</dc:title>
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  <dc:type>other</dc:type>
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