What exactly is this money going to then? More details are needed here, because this is massively expensive for an online conference, when other online conferences operate at much less. Transparency would be a good thing right now.https://twitter.com/IMC_Leeds/status/1318477582355103745 …
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Fees have not yet been fixed, and costs are indicative to assist delegates with planning. The IMC is not for profit. We were able to offer last year’s much smaller event for free thanks to the generosity of the University of Leeds. 1/2
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Replying to @IMC_Leeds @AdmiralHip
2/2 The fee for the virtual event will be substantially less than in-person, reflecting the reduction in some key costs. However, other substantial expenses remain: producing the programme, staffing, development of and running a largescale virtual platform etc.
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I’m not sure how you plan to develop, code, beta test, QA, and then run a virtual platform in the time given, especially considering there are already plenty of types of conferencing software that is out there.
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Worth pointing out that pricing any kind of conference with fees like these when people are coming in from different time zones is pretty ridiculous. Why isn’t the University facilitating a free event again? Or at the very least heavily subsidizing the costs?
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To be fair, the university probably doesn't have any money. If it's anything like mine, they're probably thinking about laying off staff, not paying them to produce programmes or hang around cyberspace guiding people who've been locked out of their virtual seminar room.
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Things are not going well in British academia. I've no idea if the proposed fee is reasonable or not, but the thought that a British non-Oxbridge university might have spare money kicking around seems inherently implausible.
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The thought that any PhD or precariously employed academic can cough up this kind of cash right now is also implausible. I am well aware, as an unfunded PhD, how bad academia is.
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