[Centre] Work in the bid

Mon Aug 8 19:15:01 CEST 2011

Am 08.08.2011 um 16:48 schrieb Cubitt S.R.:

> The next steps will need to be academic decisions about:
> 
> ·       Who will lead an IOE?
> ·       Do we want to be a ‘Lead HEI’ or would we want to partner?

That is the first and foremost question. What is the trend on this at Southampton? Do you know who else is going to bid? Anybody we would want to partner with?

> (It was
> raised as an observation that that whichever bid Ian Hargreaves (Cardiff)
> is involved with may well stand the best chance, as he is a key driver in
> this area of policy)

I hadn’t even imagined he would be competing. Any chance for us to partner with him?

> NOTE: We can only be a Lead HEI on one bid, but the call documentation is
> silent about partnering on more than one bid.

It seems that we have still to assess the playing field before it makes sense to start actual work. I’ll see what I can find out from here.

Best,
Volker