BIPPA supports the ‘PGRs against low pay’ open letter
The British and Irish Postgraduate Philosophy Association would like to support a recent open letter addressed to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) that expresses concern over the impact of the cost of living crisis on postgraduate research students in the UK and calls on UKRI to raise the doctoral / postgraduate research funding to mitigate this impact. As an association, we are deeply worried about the effects that the rampant inflation has and will continue to have on the already precarious economic conditions of postgraduate students in the UK—and, most notably, on Philosophy postgraduate students. The growing difficulties affect the