Another problem is in PI time. It takes much the same time to prepare a grant for 6 month as to 2 years. It takes at least as much time to take it through the admin system (often geared to RCUK grants rather than JISC). If you have – as we do – about 6 JISC grants of ca 8 months average that’s 1 4-year RCUK grant – much less hassle. We are always worrying about when X comes to the end of her contract, when Y can/not start.

Then there are the project meetings. We are glad to go to the communal meetings – that’s a great strength of JISC. But they do take time and also they take time to find suitable dates. And the reporting. Again 6 mini repports is a llot more than 1 RCUK report. We are fortunate to have a project manager here paid out of the bits and bobs. Without Brian we would crash.