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How would you call a person who gets a travel grant?

Cambridge Dictionary grantee a person or organization that receives a grant If you have received the grant, you can write "XXX travel grant grantee" or "XXX travel grant recipient&...
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University promised to announce the application portfolios of the fellowship recipients, but now they choose to not to share

No funding agency and no hiring institution publishes the portfolio of applicants (successful or not). There may be privacy questions involved in this, but in any case, it just isn't done -- and so it ...
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University promised to announce the application portfolios of the fellowship recipients, but now they choose to not to share

I am surprised to see people down-voting your post and calling it a rant. I think it's very natural to expect academic institution (and any institution fwif) to demonstrate transparency and high ...
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How would you call a person who gets a travel grant?

This depends on the sponsor and country. In the US, if you get a travel grant from a federal sponsor, you are still PI (Principal Investigator) on that award. You are still responsible for all the ...
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ethics form withdrawn during the international research funding process

It is standard that all grants go through the institution rather than directly to the investigator. The only exceptions I can think of involve direct reimbursement of costs like travel expenses that ...
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Covering application fees for peer review, when your university declines to proceed, but expert in the field consider the work excellent

On the funding side, you could always choose a journal that doesn't charge fees to authors. Often, the most highly-regarded journals don't (unless you want gold open access). But there's potentially ...
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Can I deviate from my fellowship proposal?

As stated in the comments, it depends of the funding institution (and of the (researchers of the) institution which received you, if distinct from the former), but in my experience, nobody is checking ...
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ethics form withdrawn during the international research funding process

united-kingdom According to the UK Research Integrity Office: Organizations and researchers must recognise that competing interests (i.e., personal or organisational considerations, including but not ...
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Do I still have a chance of funding with low english proficiency test scores?

At many universities, PhD students teach intro math courses. So language skills are important qualifications departments pay attention to. If you don't get admitted this year, make it your goal over ...
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Should I inform my potential supervisor that my family has just suffered from financial hardship?

I would say, just wait for the result for now. Your future advisor may have asked other students to apply as well. So, waiting for the result is a good approach before talking about hardship or other ...
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How much money do government agencies spend yearly on diamond open access?

I found some numbers on https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-11-21/scientists-paid-large-publishers-over-1-billion-in-four-years-to-have-their-studies-published-with-open-access.html. It's not ...
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Should I really acknowledge funding from an unrelated project?

No, because the funding agency will use these acknowledgments to analyze a project, it will be confusing if you acknowledge an unrelated project
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Can I deviate from my fellowship proposal?

US-based research administrator here. What you are referring to is called "change in scope". This applies to any type of research agreement. When you want to change the scope, it can ...
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