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The Artemis Project: understanding individual experiences of grant interviews

The Artemis Project has been established to create support and knowledge to shift the proportion of female academics applying for large grants, getting into the most senior jobs, experiencing professional satisfaction, and making a meaningful difference to the world with their work.

In this survey we are seeking to understand whether the use of interviews in grant funding is likely to create barriers for some applicants.

None of the questions are compulsory; please complete those you are comfortable with. The survey is 100% anonymous, results will be displayed in aggregate although we may use individual comments to illustrate particular points, especially where the comment is compelling in a problematic area. If you wish to remain anonymous please be careful not to accidentally identify yourself in any free text comments. We will remove any individual identifiers to the best of our ability before sharing our findings.

What will we do with the input you give us?
As soon as a reasonable sample has been collected we will:
a) openly publish the analysed and amalgamated results to inform the ongoing debate,
b) develop advice shared via blog posts/tools/templates/etc. via the Artemis blog and the RiF Inner Circle (freely accessible),
c) produce a white paper/report highlighting barriers and potential solutions within the control of funders/institutions,
d) update the evidence base as the sample size grows,
e) anything else you'd find helpful - please tell us!

Read more about the project here: https://onlineaccess.researchinfocus.com/artemis-project-home

Prefer to talk to me directly rather than fill in this survey? Please book a time that works for you here: https://calendly.com/becky-rif/women-in-research
1.What career stage would you say you were?
2.Have you been interviewed by a panel of experts convened by a funding body in a competitive funding situation e.g. for a fellowship, ERC grant, or similar?
3.If you have never been interviewed by a funding body for a grant, is this because you have avoided applying to that scheme because the assessment process involved interviews?
4.If you have been interviewed are you able to recall how you felt about it before and during the interview?
5.How long before the interview did you start preparing, and what sort of preparation did you do?
6.Did you receive support from your institution?
7.To ensure consistency of data with other sector specific research we've adopted HESA's definitions of sex, described here: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/staff.

Please select the category in which you are included in HESA data:
8.Are you neurodiverse (with, or without formal diagnosis)?
9.Thank you so much for helping us understand your experience with grant interviews. Last question: how research intensive is your institution?