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Mimicking a 5-year-old's handwriting because they lost the will to live after three...

Love to be added.

Yes. We are collecting data now, and even getting to Stage 1 was quite the process. My PhD student is extending as a direct result.

We also attempted to make it mandatory, but we opted for guideline in the end to get everyone on board. It really is unclear how to deal with grant gaps without institutional backstops.

Yep, that is exactly what that means. Some members of our department did not feel that they could guarantee that amount from grants, nor was it straightforward to figure out how to encumber that amount for grants that would end before the student finished, so this was the wording we selected.

7k is the amount of a 4 month TAship, so it basically tops up summer funding to the amount they get the rest of the year from TAing.