The new generation war

Make peace, not war: With research grant success rates well below 20 per cent, it’s little surprise there are rising tensions over who gets what. And those tensions have now spilt over into a full-scale generation war. Writing in The Conversation, Michael Brown, Adam Micolich, and Gaetan Burgio note that in 2014 the Australian Research Council awarded 285 Discovery project grants to researchers aged over 60, while just 23 were awarded researchers under 30. More...