Hi EJ,
Sorry to hear this but looking forward to being involved (if you want
me!) later in the year.
All best wishes,
Helen
Dr Helen Lomax
Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Open University
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 655677
Fax: +44 (0) 1908 654488
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Sent: 20 June 2008 11:15
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Subject: ESRC Network bid
Hi everyone,
Im really sorry but a combination of tight deadline, technological
problems between lead institutions and staff absence (meaning that the
bid can not be signed off at one of the host institutions) means that we
are having to hold back from submitting our ESRC network bid.
IDS, OU and Bradford (the host institutions) have all spoken with each
other this morning and we all felt that rather than facing the possible
wrath of handing in a bid without official approval we should not
submit.
I know that a number of you have really helped with ideas and
contributing in the drafting of the bid. This will not be lost, when we
decided not to submit we did it in the knowledge that Leverhulme also
fund networks.
The benefit of leverhulme over ESRC would mean that if we were
successful we would
- get a full time network administrator paid for (I was going to be
doing it all for free with the two other leads!)
- get three years of funding which would help us develop the thoughts
and ideas through a network over a longer period of time. We figured
this would enable to us to get a far deeper ongoing reflection than 3
events over a year really allow.
- it would enable us to develop our links with the global south and
north america far better because the bid allows travel from the uk
network to international partners. This would mean a far more equal
partnership and enable us from the UK to have a contextual understanding
of those involved from overseas through visits.
- the deadline is 1 september. This would allow us to talk in a deeper
way about what our partner institutions overseas want out of the
participation/ network (rather than bringing them over here for our
needs). We think kthis is more ethical.
- We would actually find out the result of our bid and it would start
before the ESRC results/ start date even though the application date is
later.
We hope that you understand our decision and are still willing to
support us in developing the Leverhulme bid. Obviously we need to agree
a leverhulme bid with our institutions and our research committees first
(we expect that this will take a few weeks).
If any one wants to opt out then let me know otherwise I will assume
that you are still interested in being involved and lending your
support. We will of course circulate any further etails as we know them.
Best wishes
EJ
EJ Milne
Research Fellow
International Centre for Participation Studies Department of Peace
Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP
tel: 00 44 (0)1274 235419
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/peace/staff/support/milne_e/
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