Irish Research Council 2014/2015

Spotfire

Does anybody know what the minimum application mark (%) criteria was this year for the GOI scholarship to get into the second round?

Or even previous years cut off % for progression to the second round?

funkee

I was operating for the last three months on the basis that the results would be released in June.

But I just read there in the postdoc FAQ's that they would be released in "early June".

Which is, in like, 11 days.

By way of vaguely irrelevant but compulsively interesting fact, the applicants were informed by email
last year on July 15th and told that the outcome of the award would be on the website at 4pm that day.

That was 123 days from the application deadline of 14th March..

If the process was to take the exact same this year, we would get emails on Saturday, 14 June 2014.

Compulsively interesting no?
But vaguely irrelevant? Definitely.

Still, it's close enough now that there isn't a hope of me doing a tap between now and then..

And they surely are a few days more efficient this year than last!?

By the way, last years thread was very entertaining if anybody hasn't read it -
especially in the run up to July 15th.

My own two favourite posts that I've seen:

"Is there anything to be said for another Mass?"

and

"The gender dimension... It's a pain to have to write the report even though your research has no
gender element in it. Some aspects of chemistry surely don't even involve humans, let alone women".

And just fyi I'll post the email from IRC that was sent about an hour before results were released..

(Postdocs got a similar one at the same time I think)

Not long now my little Smurflings...!!!

funkee

"We would like to notify you that the outcome of your recent application to the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme will be available through (website here) from 16.00 today. We received a very large number of applications for funding and competition was intense. Over all schemes, a total of 1628 applications were assessed, and for the GOI Postgraduate Scholarship and Department of Foreign Affairs and Andrew Grene Postgraduate Scholarship in Conflict Resolution in particular, 1115 applications were assessed with 254 awards to be made.

After 16.00 today, the status of your submission will no longer read 'Ready for Review'. Your submission status will be updated as one of the following:

• Conditional Award: The application has been recommended for funding. The award offer is conditional on fulfillment of the scheme terms and conditions (all terms and conditions can be found on the IRC website including receipt by the Council of all required supporting materials and documentation (e.g. transcripts of academic record) from the applicant. The award is wholly subject to receipt of funding by the Council from the Department of Education and Skills, and the Department of Foreign Affairs (where relevant). A formal letter of offer outlining all the necessary steps for accepting of the award will follow in due course.

• Reserve: While unfortunately we cannot offer you a conditional award at this time, the Assessment Panel did indicate that your application was of a high standard, and accordingly, you have been placed on a reserve list. Should candidates who have been offered an award decline the offer, we will then (and only then) offer awards to candidates on the reserve list. Candidates on the reserve list will be contacted no later than 26th August 2013.

• Application unsuccessful: The application has not been recommended for funding on this occasion. The Council acknowledge that this outcome will be a disappointment given the substantial work involved in the preparation of the proposal, and will supply further information on your scoring in due course.

Irish Research Council

bren2001

I can only imagine a few people will miss funkee's first post and see the email. They will then go to their own email account and furiously refresh waiting on it to come through....

Sklarker

funkee wrote: »

...Over all schemes, a total of 1628 applications were assessed, and for the GOI Postgraduate Scholarship and Department of Foreign Affairs and Andrew Grene Postgraduate Scholarship in Conflict Resolution in particular, 1115 applications were assessed with 254 awards to be made.

FYI: 1755 applications this year and 1175 PG so odds are a little lower this year

mikehayes83

Sklarker wrote: »

FYI: 1755 applications this year and 1175 PG so odds are a little lower this year

Where did you get these numbers from?

heidi7

Any numbers on how many applied to the Enterprise Partnership Scheme?

Sklarker

mikehayes83 wrote: »

Where did you get these numbers from?

IRC had a debriefing session in April (I wasn't at it but I was sent the figures)

heidi7 wrote: »

Any numbers on how many applied to the Enterprise Partnership Scheme?

55 Postgraduate Enterprise applicants

Sklarker

How come there were only 254 PG awards last year? Should there not have been 300. Do they not make a 2nd offer for those who turn it down? Is it based entirely on how many applicants exceed a certain % assessment?

heidi7

Only 55 Enterprise applicants?? Any idea on how may get awarded?

jtkc

heidi7 wrote: »

Only 55 Enterprise applicants?? Any idea on how may get awarded?

It's annoying that you can't see previous years' award winners from the Enterprise Partnership Scheme. When you go to the Alumni section, all of the EPS links result in "Access denied. You are not authorized to access this page." It would give you a general idea of how many are typically awarded...

BumblebeeGirl

I got EPS funding last year. I was told out of 42 applications, only 17 were awarded. Hope that helps, and best of luck:)

funkee

Had no idea those figure were out..

Does anybody know how many ELEVATE applications this year?

funkee

I think there were 25 Enterprise Post Doc's this year...

Which would mean a 45% success rate!!!!

LegofLamb

Does anyone have any other non ELEVATE postdoc stats or info?

Spotfire

Folks we could be looking at the last 2 weeks of waiting until we find out!!!

Sklarker

funkee wrote: »

Had no idea those figure were out..

Does anybody know how many ELEVATE applications this year?

These are all the stats I have:
1175 Postgraduate applicants
55 Postgraduate Enterprise applicants
447 Postdoctoral applicants
10 Postdoctoral Enterprise applicants
68 Elevate

JervisOak

Sklarker wrote: »

These are all the stats I have:
1175 Postgraduate applicants
55 Postgraduate Enterprise applicants
447 Postdoctoral applicants
10 Postdoctoral Enterprise applicants
68 Elevate

Any chance you know the split between HEI and enterprise Elevate applications?

LegofLamb

Sklarker wrote: »

These are all the stats I have:
1175 Postgraduate applicants
55 Postgraduate Enterprise applicants
447 Postdoctoral applicants
10 Postdoctoral Enterprise applicants
68 Elevate

Thanks for these figures.

Last year 13.6% of postdoc applicants were successful. Using this year's numbers thats 60 awards out of 447. Yikes.

Sklarker

JervisOak wrote: »

Any chance you know the split between HEI and enterprise Elevate applications?

No sorry!

funkee

Hmmmm... 7.3% success rate for ELEVATE Academic.

I really don't know where my confidence has come from.

Cause it certainly ain't justified by the stats!

Spotfire

Well everybody, time is ticking down ominously now!

When do ye think we'll get the email?!

I'm thinking sometime in the second week of June..........

Sklarker

Spotfire wrote: »

Well everybody, time is ticking down ominously now!

When do ye think we'll get the email?!

I'm thinking sometime in the second week of June..........

My money's on Friday June 20th!

heidi7

Sklarker wrote: »

My money's on Friday June 20th!

I really hope its before then! 'early june' to me means the first week!

funkee

Thing is, I've taken off the past few weeks thinking well, no point in starting
anything now if I only have to dump it if I get funding...

So I've just realised that whenever we do hear - I have to go back to work!

So, now I'm like, ahh, take your time there IRC!!

Ha ha.

I imagine on their lunch breaks they huddle around an ipad in the
canteen and crack themselves up at the somersaults we do on here!

Every year.

aidoh

Ah yeah I'd say so.
Sure there have been one or two mysterious posts in this thread even, from users with just that one post to answer peoples' questions.

I reckon it's an IRC/NSA conspiracy. There is no funding, just loads of spying and laughing.

NormalBob Ubiquitypants

Just got an email from the IRC saying from tomorrow I will be unable to view the status of my application as they will be updating the system which should take 5 days. will know next week whether I have it or not. Fingers crossed, along with anything else that is crossable. Best of luck everyone!

Spotfire

IRC EMAIL! We'll all know by tomorrow week at the latest! --> 5th June!

I feel sick thinking about it!

Good luck to everyone!!

JervisOak

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

Just got an email from the IRC saying from tomorrow I will be unable to view the status of my application as they will be updating the system which should take 5 days. will know next week whether I have it or not. Fingers crossed, along with anything else that is crossable. Best of luck everyone!

Are results for the whole cohort of awards , both post grad and postdoc normally released at the same time?

NormalBob Ubiquitypants

No idea to be honest. Here is the email:


We would like to notify you that from tomorrow (Thursday 28th May) you will be unable to view your submitted application to the Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on the online system. This is to enable the status update of all applications following the recent assessment process. This update will be completed within a maximum of five working days, at which time you will be notified by email and will be able to view the outcome of your application. We appreciate your patience during this period.

The status of applications will be updated to one of the following:

• Conditional Award: The application has been recommended for funding. The award offer is conditional on fulfilment of the scheme terms and conditions including receipt by the Council of all required supporting materials and documentation (e.g. transcripts of academic record) from the applicant. The award is wholly subject to receipt of funding by the Council from the Department of Education and Skills/Strategic Funding Partners (where relevant). A formal letter of offer to the applicant outlining all the necessary steps for accepting of the award will follow in due course.

• Reserve: While unfortunately we cannot offer the applicant a conditional award at this time, the Assessment Panel indicated that the application was of a high standard, and accordingly, has been placed on a reserve list. Should candidates who have been offered an award decline the offer, we will then (and only then) offer awards to candidates on the reserve list.

• Application unsuccessful: The application has not been recommended for funding on this occasion. The Council acknowledge that this outcome will be a disappointment given the substantial work involved in the preparation of the proposal, and will supply further information on application scoring in due course.

Irish Research Council