Project-Based Funding: What Are the Effects on the Work of Researchers?

Abstract

Matthieu Hubert and Séverine Louvel explain how “contracting” is becoming a common activity for researchers. In addition to redefining modes of laboratory management and administration, it changes research work, workplace solidarity, and professional hierarchies. Thus, as they show in their article, this new injunction is in some measure preventing scientists and teams from developing and pursuing research strategies in the long term.