The debate will be led by Professor Poul Holm (TCD), Dr Declan Jordan (UCC) and Professor Luke O'Neill (TCD)
Time: 6.00 p.m - 7.30 p.m.
Date: Tuesday 1 December 2009.
Venue: Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Academic Research: is it of any value to the taxpayer?
This is the title of a debate to be held later this evening in TCD. Might be of interest to those following recent developments in the debate about public investment into R&D in Ireland. Details below.
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Three academics discussing whether academic research is of value to the taxpayer. Hmmm, I wonder what the answer will be?
(Sorry, couldn't resist it ;-)
I guess its like those discussions you hear on radio with a journalist interviewing another journalist about the importance of journalism.
Anyway Gerard everything that you do is of value to the taxpayer (& the world) what would there be to discuss?!
Gerard, Declan Jordan is very sceptical about the value of the type of academic research that is funded under government programmes. I couldn't make it to the debate but I reckon it would have been a good one, better than events where only people fully in agreement with large scale basic science funding are invited to essentially lobby.
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