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Complacency must be avoided if the European Research Area is to be a reality, argues Phil Ward, the deputy director of research services at the University of Kent and a Funding Insight columnist.
As regular readers of this column will know I’m something of a data geek. I don’t profess to a huge expertise, but I’m fascinated by the statistics underlying all the applications and awards we handle.
It’s like discovering the secret patterns that explain the world, which goes back to my love of semiotics. So when a colleague presented me with slides from the European Research Council outlining ‘indicative statistics’ from its Starting Grants competition last year, I was in heaven.
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