Truth be told

With poor funding and employment prospects for researchers in Australia, Funding Insight ANZ columnist and Research Whisperer founder Tseen Khoo considers whether the system is broken and how we can make it better.

It’s safe to say that the funding and employment prospects for researchers in Australia are poor.

When I first drafted this piece, I wanted to say that the prospects were ‘challenging’, then realised that this is the way we have come to talk about—and cloak—the many stark inequities in our system. The circumstances are not challenging in the sense of being a series of personal adversities that must be overcome.