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What does this mean? I'm not very clued in on this, appreciate any insight....

xman25 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:45 pm

Any evaluation and ranking folks this year?

Very thoughtful response, thank you. On your first point, yes of course there are many such cases, and I am not arguing that anonymity would be feasible. However, i do know that junior academics are very often starstruck by senior academics so I think it can be an issue. However its an impossible on...

For folks who are funded, does anyone know exactly what documentation the EU requires to prove that the scholar is actually living in the country and doing the work? I know that they will obviously need confirmation from the host institution, but how about proof of residence and utility bills and su...

Excellent response, thank you! Just on point 2: I am guilty of some 'blanket thinking' on this point, I admit. I had the experience a few months ago of being told that two people I know are expert evaluators for MCSA (not in my discipline) and my response was something like "You are shitting me, tho...

I decided to apply for this funding 4 days before the deadline, and, in fact, knew little about MCSA before that. I've only been in academic for few years, after working in the non academic sector for 15 years. When I looked into this fellowship 3 things struck me: 1) That applications are not anony...

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure last year was 91. Oh, I don't know what LIF stands for, maybe that's different to ST EF without the LIF... :D I have the feeling is going to increase for the ST-EF-LIF panel, hopefully not because last year was 93 :P Hopefully it wont go up too far. Cut off last year fo...

There is, however, another (unfortunate) aspect to the evaluators thinking, especially in social sciences and the broader humanities, and that is political ideology. I don't want to say too much, suffice to say I've spoken with people about this issue, and considerable bias on the part of evaluators...

Hopefully it wont go up too far. Cut off last year for IF ES was 91, which was considerably lower than previous years (from memory: 2017 92.8, 2016 92.2, 2015 92.8)...heres hoping it stays somewhere around the 91/92 mark. For Global Fellowships, the cutoff should significantly decrease. The number o...

I notice that there are a lot more applicants this year than last year. I'm a bit surprised at this, I kind of expected there to be less what with Brexit looming, assumed less UK people would apply. Also, theres a hell of a lot more money in the fund this year than in previous years. I looked at the...