Astronomers are calling for an increase in research grant funding, as they face up to the possible loss of cash from the European Union and a legacy of flat cash settlements for their funding council.
“The grants line is now so starved that an average academic would only secure postdoctoral funding about three times in a career. That’s obviously not sustainable,” Stephen Serjeant, chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s astronomy advisory panel, told Research Fortnight.
Serjeant is co-author of a paper published in the Astronomy and Geophysics journal on 1 April. The paper reported the results of a survey asking 293 astronomers what they wanted from the STFC.
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