Beyond mad... Quango bosses are spending more than £800,000 on a review of “colonial stereotypes” in the works of the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. Part of the Edinburgh University project is expected to involve long-distance travel to places such as Samoa and Hawaii. Born in 1850, Stevenson achieved worldwide fame for works such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is paying the university £809,334 for a three-year project entitled: “Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction Through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement”. thetimes.co.uk/article/quango…
@GilesUdy I visited his grave, a top a hill looking down over Apia on a property he owned. He was highly regarded, and still is, by the people of Samoa, where he lived, due to his declining health & sickness, in his later years.
@GilesUdy re travel can they not do a video call?...
@GilesUdy What next - Gauguin paintings with trips to Tahiti?
@GilesUdy I keep saying this but I’ll say it again. Where is the killer asteroid we so desperately need?
@GilesUdy #AlexandraJones represents the Secretary of State at the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Board.
@GilesUdy #MichelleDonelan is the responsible Secretary of State. Or is that irresponsible? @SciTechgovuk