hopefulacademic wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:19 amWas asleep and woke up and stupidly checked my email. Got rejected (ST-SOC) with 78% which is a 10% drop from last year. That means I don't even have a seal of excellence so it has all been for nothing. This is quite a blow and I don't really know how to go on from here. On to the comments (listing scores and weaknesses):
excellence 3,80, previous 4,30
- It is not entirely clear from the application how novel is the project compared to the researcher’s own previous creative and research experience. New improvements are unclearly presented.
- The state-of-the-art review does not provide sufficient detail on the relation between this research and other research in the field.
- It is not well specified what forms would be used to transfer applicant expertise to the host institution.
- The courses the applicant would be taking at the host institution are inadequately specified. - It is not entirely clear how the supervisor's expertise will be transferred to the applicant.
impact 4,00, previous 4,40
- The plan for academic publications resulting from the project is not sufficiently explored. The proposed dissemination activities for a 24- month research projects are limited in scope. The exact details of journal articles or monograph publications the researcher aims presenting, lack sufficient details.
- Communication to policy makers and especially to relevant industry stakeholders, significant for the project, are inadequately planned.
- The plans to communicate the results to industry and artistic communities outside the country of research are insufficiently developed.
implementation 4,00, previous 4,70
- Dissemination activities are not clearly allocated in the work plan and related time and resources are insufficiently justified - The work packages, and in particular deliverables and milestones are not described in a detailed way.
I worked hard on improving my application from last year and worked on teh weaknesses there only to see this big list of weaknesses. A lot of them seem bogus reasons to subtract points: what courses would I be taking, academic outputs not sufficiently specified (I gave journal and conference titles though), WP's: in the last proposal they specifically asked less WPs which I did and specified in quite big detail.
I am sorry and I understand you... the same for me, I am in Soc too and I really dont know how the evaluator can do this kind of evaluation... for me this action is not credible at all, it is all a lottery