On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Sheila Peacock wrote:
> The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE,
> to which both our parent societies belong) has written a
> letter to the government about the Cabinet Office's adding
> a clause, from May this year, to prevent government-funded
> research grants from being used to "lobby for new regulation
> or more government funding". An article on the clause and
> CaSE's (widely shared) concerns has been published at:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/feb/18/the-anti-lobbying-clause-will-undermine-evidence-policy-and-the-public-interest
Thanks, Sheila. The Stern consultation on the future of the REF
doesn't close until Thursday evening. Given the interaction with the
impact agenda, that might be an ideal avenue for making some of the
points in the Guardian article.
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Kind regards,
Dan Hatton
Dr. Daniel C. Hatton
Lecturer
Mechanical and Marine Engineering Subject Group
Autonomous Marine Systems Research Group
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Plymouth University,
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