Fundable, but not funded: how can research funders ensure ‘unlucky’ applications are handled more appropriately?

Having a funding application rejected does not necessarily mean the research is unsupportable by funders – maybe just unlucky. There is a significant risk to wider society in the rejection of unlucky but otherwise sound applications: good ideas may slip through the cracks, or be re-worked and dulled-down to sound more likely to provide reliable results. Oli Preston looks at how funders could be better at addressing the burden of more high-quality applications than are financially manageable

Dear Dr Perring… correspondence in the Atlas of the British Flora archive

An overview of original correspondence (held at CEH Wallingford) relating to the 1962 Atlas of the British Flora (Perring & Walters 1962) data collection process

Evaluation of pause

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Rare and interesting 16

The 16th instalment of an occasional column reporting recent rare and interesting bryophyte records

Rare and interesting 15

The 15th instalment of an occasional column reporting recent rare and interesting bryophyte records

Investigating the impact of ash dieback

A short update on the SPLASH (Survey of Plants and Lichens associated with Ash) project

Rare and interesting 16

The 16th instalment of an occasional column reporting recent rare and interesting bryophyte records

Evaluation of the implementation of a contextual safeguarding system in the London Borough of Hackney

This report presents the evaluation of the design and implementation of a pilot Contextual Safeguarding system in the London Borough of Hackney. The project was funded by the second round of the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) Innovation Programme. The project was led by Hackney Children and Families Service, working with an Academic Development Team at the University of Bedfordshire, led by Dr Carlene Firmin. The evaluation was conducted by the University of Sussex and Research in Practice. The setup and implementation phase of the project was April 2017 to March 2019, followed by an embedding phase April 2019 to March 2020