Talk Academia

Suggestion for a change in the evaluation process. Given that getting funded is a lottery anyway, masked as a fair process because of the involvement of reviewers, my suggestion is get the reviewers involved in weeding out the "very bad" applications, say those <75 or 80. Then really make a lottery ...

A total lottery or, instead, the better your proposal the more tickets for the lottery? That would make sense in a perfect world. However, the variation in evaluation meters between reviewers is the problem. It may seem (to you or me etc) that the next proposal is flawless or much better than the p...

This frightens me. Last year I got 90+ and was put on the reserve list. This year I submitted a much stronger application, and I will be very upset if I get a lower score. Didn't mean to frighten anyone (sorry about that). My point was to try and be philosophical (or rather stoic) about it. The bes...

As for some of the other posters, this is my 3rd attempt. The first time I got 90.2 (just 2 points below funding), after working on the application for less than 3 weeks. Last year, I worked on it for 2 months and was in my opinion a much better proposal. Still I got a lower score (84.0). This 3rd ...

As for some of the other posters, this is my 3rd attempt. The first time I got 90.2 (just 2 points below funding), after working on the application for less than 3 weeks. Last year, I worked on it for 2 months and was in my opinion a much better proposal. Still I got a lower score (84.0). This 3rd t...