It can be difficult for early career researchers to engage in partnerships given little support or guidance, says Esther
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Another problem I have is with the SPOR grants. I find, grants that are specifically for patient engagement, tend to have the idea that you need to find that funding. Yes, a post-doc, just come out with my PhD, I haven’t worked in some massive institution. Honestly, I don’t know where I’m supposed to get much funding from to do this kind of research? Like, it’s just, it’s next to impossible. And, I find a lot of people are having these problems. And, the people who don’t have the problems, they just have the right connections to be able to write the right letters of support. And, then I don’t find that correct. It’s actually a real downer, on especially new investigators, to do this kind of work, when there is no funding for it, unless you have much funding, which I don’t know, how I’m supposed to get that.
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