radfrac_archive (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
radfrac_archive) wrote2009-02-24 09:50 pm
radfrac_archive) wrote2009-02-24 09:50 pm
Entry tags:
so. annoyed. or: i knew i should have applied last year
Help me out, here, kids. The feds want to repurpose the SSHRC grants to make them business-oriented.
The SSHRC is the only grant of any size I've found that's available to me as a grad student in English. It already covers all of the social sciences and all of the humanities (the NSERC covers natural sciences and engineering.) Economics is in there as a perfectly respectable segment of the population. It's just not King of All the Money.
Please go here and sign this: SSHRC petition.
If you don't like me, do it for the sociologists. If you don't like them, do it for the historians.
Perhaps you support the study of languages. Theology? Psychology?
Teachers? Maybe you like teachers? Anthropologists? Philosophers? No, me neither. But political scientists. I know you like them. I've seen you at parties.
Really, though, do it for me.
This feels like when we all worked for That Place and they could not understand that not every employee has to be in sales.
{rf}
* I know this isn' exactly the most pressing issue of our time, but it is DEEPLY ANNOYING TO THE SPIRIT.
The SSHRC is the only grant of any size I've found that's available to me as a grad student in English. It already covers all of the social sciences and all of the humanities (the NSERC covers natural sciences and engineering.) Economics is in there as a perfectly respectable segment of the population. It's just not King of All the Money.
Please go here and sign this: SSHRC petition.
If you don't like me, do it for the sociologists. If you don't like them, do it for the historians.
Perhaps you support the study of languages. Theology? Psychology?
Teachers? Maybe you like teachers? Anthropologists? Philosophers? No, me neither. But political scientists. I know you like them. I've seen you at parties.
Really, though, do it for me.
This feels like when we all worked for That Place and they could not understand that not every employee has to be in sales.
{rf}
* I know this isn' exactly the most pressing issue of our time, but it is DEEPLY ANNOYING TO THE SPIRIT.
no subject
no subject
about sshrc... it's a mixed bag and i think it's badly managed overall. first, there's a restriction on your how much you can make in non-SSHRC-academic-income when you accept. second, there is no practical, reporting obligation. you can change your topic, etc, after having accepted the money. your work, at the end of the day, does not need to be publishable/get published/go to conferences, etc. to what value is the pile of research at the end of the day if it is not made more public--- this is public money.
universities need to up grant money and scholarships instead of simply encouraging graduate students to go out for the almighty sshrc.
whew - rant over. shutting down for the moment...