University departments are supposed to produce research, so they compete for big grants. In natural #science, this is unproblematic because you can't really produce top-level research without big grants.
In the #Humanities however, you can. So the system of incentives is counterproductive here. The fastest way to get top-level publications out of a humanities scholar is not to make her compete for big grants. It's just to give her 75% research time. 1/2
#academia
Martin Rundkvist
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