The UK’s largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of ‘national importance’. This new direction, which the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) describes as ‘shaping capability’, will squeeze certain chemistry sub-disciplines in favour of others and limit the role of peer review in funding decisions.
I am a freelance science writer specialising in physics, astronomy, science funding and research policy. I write for a variety of online and print journals. I am also editor of the Euroscientist. In my day job, I work as a Research Facilitator in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.
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