Conversation

Grant-based research not only drives researchers into precarity by turning them into entrepreneurs, it also promotes bad research. The incentives to cut corners and get something non-rigorous published increase when projects run out of money after a set time period that cannot be adjusted to the intrinsic vagaries of the research process. This is true especially if your next grant also depends on publication metrics. The grant ideology looks at science and sees a conveyor belt. #AcademicChatter