| Comment | yeah, funding is still very competitive as with any other discipline, but the sheer number and volume of funds out there makes it a very job-secure area of research to be in
plus if you run out of funding the fallback is just to go and get a boring job at a utility for £££
only downside is that the background is moving so fast it can actually be hard to make sure the research is ahead of the industry - spend 3 years on a grant researching some theoretical new tech, then when you come to publish no-one's interested because some venture fund's already gone and built it! |
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