… Hoorah for the Easter break. This year I will be spending a good part of it rewriting my research application to the AHRC, to reduce costs all round and bring the database section into the second decade of the 21st century. So far as costs go, including Full Economic Costing apparently makes the cost of the project too great for what the market will bear. I am not convinced that Full Economic Costing gives the best value to the taxpayer – who, after all, is paying for all this. However, I don’t get any choice on this. So I’ll just have to compensate by knocking costs down wherever possible.
I’ll also be checking the timings of the project and checking the milestones. I worked these out in enormous detail for the first application, but they’ll have to be checked again. All these calculations can’t go into the actual application, as there isn’t space, but they’re necessary to ensure that the various parts of the project fit together.
This is a project of enormous interest to the general person-in-the-street, and it could be done by any skilled amateur — in fact many skilled amateurs would be keen to do it for nothing, or expenses only. But how to get in touch with such skilled amateurs? That is the question.
