Just sat through my first experience of an STFC Town Meeting. This is a meeting of a group of physicists to discuss matters of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. It was almost exclusively about money: how the limited funding we get from the government should be allocated, and how we should try and get more money.
The government has, within the last few years, drastically dropped the level of investment in particle physics. This means that a number of existing and future projects have had to be scrapped, and other projects have had to be scaled down.
While I was listening to this discussion, I was thinking about how money should best be used. Continue reading “Funding”