The problem with this framing is that QR-funding doesn't help HEIs to build research capacity where capacity needs to be built, but instead concentrates funding with the already well-resourced. We need to unlink funding from past performance.
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UKRI’s plans to cut QR funding risk ‘weakening regional capacity’
Proposed loss of certain quality-related streams could undermine specialist institutions’ ability to build research capacity
