#ECRWednesday webinar: In pursuit of more equitable funding
Channel: eLife
Date: 2020-12-02

In this month's ECR Wednesday webinar, the panellists discussed the inherent biases, disadvantages and challenges faced when pursuing funding opportunities, and explored examples of funding policies and community initiatives that they think could help make funding fairer.

This webinar was chaired by Carolina Quezada, ECAG member, Postdoctoral researcher, Centro Integrativo de Biología y Química Aplicada (CIBQA), Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile.

The panel included:

Lotte de Winde, ECAG member, leading the Fair Funding initiative within eLife’s Ambassador programme

Hugo A. Carignano, eLife Community Ambassador, investigated ECR funding in Argentina

Katie Grogan, leading the Job Application Reviewers Initiative on FuturePI Slack