EPSRC Connect It seems that there is hope. A short while ago I was a member of an EPSRC ICT Panel, this was my second research panel, the previous being around two years ago. At that time we tried to rank around 35 good proposals and of those only a very small amount (if my memory serves me correctly) just 5 were funded. At this most recent panel, I’m very pleased to say that of the 24 proposals being ranked around 10 were funded.