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When a UK politician questioned the value of academia, scholars were quick to respond, finds Tommaso Grant

The Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire is wrong to say that academics lack ‘real world’ experience, says Emma Sheppard

Peer review publications remain a key stage in the quality assurance of new research, but some comments can be the stuff of nightmares, says Kingsley Purdam

Australian university seeks to improve researchers’ digital identities. But does this risk excessive uniformity?

Budget scrutiny is emphasising the importance of effective translational research, says Graham Lord, who believes international cooperation is key to ensuring research reaps practical rewards

Infamous cases of misconduct such as that of Paolo Macchiarini are just the extremes on a long spectrum of dubious research practices, say Nick Butler, Helen Delaney and Sverre Spoelstra

New data points to exponential growth in many countries

Johannes Angermuller is a linguist in the UK, a sociologist in Germany and a mixture of both in France. How do you define your academic self?

If lab misconduct is linked to personality traits, there is a case for assessing these when hiring scientists, say researchers

Drop in percentage of successful applications to research councils comes amid global debate over ‘wasted’ time applying for funding

Scientists awarded prize for their work on molecular machines, which are 'at the same stage as the electric motor was in the 1830s'

Three scientists, born in the UK but now based in the US, are honoured for their work in the 'flatlands' of physics

Federally funded research will now come with an open access clause – but uncertainties remain

New research also finds that the statistical power of studies in social and behavioural science has not improved in half a century

More funding is needed to keep scientific research in the Netherlands strong, warn universities

Partnerships between cities and universities will be vital to securing the economic future of the North of England, writes Koen Lamberts

New study looks at what happened when a university made its publications publicly available through an institutional repository

Idea is one of several ways to speed the peer review process, although some think it will annoy academics

As £650m institute opens, Jack Grove hears from those leading Europe’s largest single biomedical research institute

Welfare state expert Peter Taylor-Gooby cheerfully admits his research has had no real-world influence – but hopes a book might

It is unclear what Theresa May’s policy will mean in practice, but it could draw universities into the heart of economic planning

Jonathan Grant and Alexandra Pollitt look at how discrete choice modelling might be able to work out what type of impact is most valued

Life sciences journal spends just over £3,000 per article, and has challenged high-profile rivals to release details of their costs

New English journals are ‘springing up like mushrooms’ so research can be read internationally, says report

Walking supervision sessions around Birmingham and pub-based academic chats have won praise from PhD candidates

Jeremy Berg warns scientists are straying into policy commentator roles

Supervisors explain how to help students keep their research on track

Andy Miah, chair in science communication and future media at the University of Salford, on why academics should maintain their online presence

Some see changes as making it more attractive to hire younger researchers – but there could be new opportunities to game the system

Government plans rise in research spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP, far above UK

Further 50 per cent of EU-backed schemes result in ‘major scientific advance’

Chair of independent review of research excellence framework also hopes to tackle 'game-playing'

Investing more in research ‘must be central to our nation’s strategy’, writes Lord Stern on the day his review of the REF is published

Lord Stern's review of the research excellence framework was published today. This is how UK higher education is responding...

The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society

The grouping of subjects such as neuroscience and psychiatry with cheaper disciplines will lead to what critics say is a failure to fairly fund mental health research

Idea is mooted at EuroScience Open Forum but event is also warned that privileging researchers could be seen as ‘elitist’

Few academic department heads receive any formal leadership training when they step up into middle management, a study says

There is no shortage of ways for universities to make it easier for those with children to attend scholarly conferences, says Rachel Moss

Researchers have used an art competition to model what happens during peer review, and their work raises further questions over its effectiveness

Presidents' associations issue statement in wake of Brexit vote

Social science scholars are attempting to produce ‘impossible results’ due to demands from journal editors, finds study

Liverpool’s Michael Dougan on ‘poisonous’ anti-expert rhetoric and the UK’s EEA deal chances

The Home Office has also released data showing experiments on animals across the country have broadly flatlined since 2013

Unlike the rest of the EU budget, research funding disproportionately flows to rich members. But there are pressures for this to change

Lord Stern's warning adds to concerns about a brain drain from British universities in the wake of the referendum result

Shift may be evidence that researchers feel they are increasingly judged on citations and journal impact factors

Thinktank advises universities to take advantage of UK’s ‘instability’ after EU referendum

Minister invites researchers to send ‘concrete’ examples that UK academics are being stopped from bidding for EU grants 

Government and universities must find ways to remove obstacles to cross-cutting research, says report

Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust will be able to publish their findings ahead of peer review on a new digital platform from this autumn

An often anti-intellectual Leave campaign has triumphed, leaving scholars wondering why so many appear to distrust them

But research leaders in the UK say their European counterparts are already freezing them out when it comes to applying for EU money

Iain Gillespie, former research and innovation director at Nerc, explains why the University of Leicester is setting up four new institutes

Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small

Brexit vote leads some European researchers to conclude joint bids with UK academics are now too risky

Jisc/RLUK study charts sector’s shift towards making research freely available online

There was huge support for Remain from university staff – but the public begged to differ

Leave vote triggers warnings of recruitment problems and of UK academics seeking better opportunities elsewhere

But universities are not entirely blameless for leave supporters' distrust - academics' liberal and left-wing tendencies verge on conformity, says David Matthews