Elizabeth Gibney

Without proper reporting social and psychological experiments are a “waste of money”, researchers have said.

Universities contributed £3.4 billion to the UK economy in 2011-12 in services to business and the community, figures published in the Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey 2011-12 show

Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say

The government would like to see more publishers take up schemes that waive open access publishing fees for researchers from universities that subscribe to its journals, a senior civil servant has said.

The excuses academics use to explain away fraudulent research results

Lab audits could demonstrate integrity, 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity hears. By Elizabeth Gibney

Editors have noted a “certain level of sloppiness” creeping into research papers, the executive editor of the Nature Publishing Group has said.

More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found

Blog posts reveal a lack of ‘socio-academic’ confidence among doctoral students paying their own way

Research and publication is by far the most important factor in career advancement, according to a survey of academics

Fewer than ten graduates each from Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi minority groups make the transition to a research degree each academic year, a study has found.