Sen. Mehreen Faruqi asked the Qs worth reporting. Firstly, what's caused the delays to DECRAs in rearranging the Grants Calendar? Very brief summary: Had to rearrange Grants Calendar coz ARC can’t run new schemes ’til new legislation starts 1st Jul. 📽️ youtu.be/crLbtUOkvGs

ARC Senate Estimates 2024-06-06 DECRA delays

Senate Faruqi asks the ARC questions about the re-arrangement of the Grants Calendar, specifically the 3-month delays to DECRA applications and what this has...

What remains unclear is why the ARC: (a) doesn’t consult actual researchers in some way about this; and (b) doesn’t provide advance warning of changes *to researchers*. They really seem still not to understand that researchers are main “stakeholders”!