A round-up of my articles this week:
University grants are being used as foreign aid
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It’s not the first time I’ve mentioned this, but the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has become an outlet for foreign aid.
Is this the UK equivalent of USAID?
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Yesterday I wrote about the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), which I was amazed to discover this week (even years in to my research, I still find new things all the time). I knew that we were funding a lot of daft foreign projects, but some grants actually came out of the foreign aid budget!
Over £4 MILLION of the UK aid budget was given to research on self-harm in South Asia
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£4,487,566 of the UK foreign aid’s budget was awarded to a study on “Deliberate Self Harm (DSH)” in South Asia, I can reveal.
“Over half of rough sleepers in London are non-British nationals” admits taxpayer-funded charity
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On Saturday (10 October) it was World Homeless Day, and Asylum Aid had an important message about “non-British nationals” (aka foreigners).