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FYI: EPSRC Policy on Unsuccessful Applications...
EPSRC's policy is that if a principal investigator has 3 or more proposals within a 2-year period ranked in the bottom half of a funding prioritisation list or rejected before panel AND an overall personal success rate of less than 25%, they will be allowed to submit only one application over the next year.The proposals counted DO NOT include where you are a co-investigator, where peer review is led by another funding body, training or outline proposals, institutional awards (where EPSRC tells us who will lead a bid) or proposals on prioritisation lists made of five or fewer proposals, but they WILL count all principal investigators on a joint proposal with other universities (not just the lead).
This does not penalise people who are new to the funding landscape or who have never applied to this funder before. EPSRC will calculate the success rate by dividing the total number of funded proposals by the total submitted where decisions have been made in the past two years. Before you reach the point where EPSRC will look at the success rate, you have to have had 3 or more proposals rejected in the period. If, for example, you have 3 proposals rejected in the period but had put in 5 and had 2 successful you would have a 40% success rate so there would be no action taken. If you had put in 4 and had 1 successful, you would have a 25% success rate and no action would be taken.
This policy takes effect from April 2010.
Full information can be found here and also in the October 09 issue of Connect. The Estates and Indirects table may also be useful.
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