6. Check the official details here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Stalk my work here: www.durham.ac.uk/business/our...
And here: www.mariannhardey.com

If you want to disrupt the status quo with me, reply here or DM. Let’s get weird.

5. Timeline: The project runs in 27/28, but the Expression of Interest is due mid-Jan 2026. That gives us about 6 weeks to brew up something potent over digital coffees (or Zoom).

4. The brief asks for "Risk," "Ambition," and "Novelty."

I am not looking to write a standard paper (yawn).

I want to build a temporary utopia of thought. If you have a weird idea you’ve been shelving because it didn’t fit a standard grant box, dust it off. This is the home for it.

3. The catch? (There’s always one).

We need to be genuinely interdisciplinary. I’m in Business/Social Science.

I need a Co-PI who speaks a totally different academic language. Biology? Theology? Engineering? Literature? If our jargon doesn't match, we are probably a good fit.

2. The loot: 💰
Time buy-out for us (Christopherson-Knott Fellowships).
Funding to fly in 2 brilliant external Fellows to hang out and think with us.
Budget for research activities.

Basically, the IAS are paying us to escape the daily grind and actually collaborate.

We are witnessing "The Great Flattening." We are trading the jagged, deep expertise of human engineers for the smooth, sterile competence of the machine.

Also inside: Why female-coded AI tools are sneered at while "Stargate" supercomputers get $100bn. www.mariannhardey.com/technologica...

Yes I do :-)

Touché
Good point.
Yes, if I can help. Delighted to be asked. Thank you. ☺️

Want to ensure you have as strong an edge to your resistance as possible and I don’t risk diluting your message.
If you think I’m worthy, yes of course, happy to talk :-)

Oh wow. Honoured to be asked.

Full disclosure, I use A.I. as it is integral to ALL the software in my professional role. I have lots of thoughts about that though…

You’re in good company.

Sad face, oh, but I would LOVE a tattoo. Oh well, a return to my daughter painting on me in pen.