Impact and engagement

New app helps people ‘move beyond the headlines’ about climate change

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

Academia takes in some truly esoteric topics and tasks, but what are the strangest jobs? Here, five individuals with surprising roles describe their work

The discipline has promised big advances in many areas, but is it failing to live up to the hype? Three neuroscientists consider the state of their field

A rigorous methodology is essential to manage university patent portfolios, say Bruno Reynolds and Ben Oakley from Isis Enterprise in Oxford

Many more of the general public should help to plot the course of research, argue Christiaan De Beukelaer and Jan Baetens

Talking to the media isn’t a minefield, says Fern Riddell, but a manageable opportunity and a civic duty

Campus collections have found new audiences and roles, but they still face significant questions, says Nicholas Thomas

By limiting its scope and eschewing academic departments, a campus in Latin America has left room for tradition and transformation, says Klaus Capelle

Universities must embrace entrepreneurship and work with industry – but with their eyes open, says Nancy Rothwell

John Kingman, chair of the newly created UKRI, explains the governing philosophy of the research and innovation funding organisation

Nick Hillman offers academics advice on managing expectations and ensuring that their research has a big impact

Mark Shucksmith considers whether better knowledge exchange between academics and the third sector could serve as a mechanism for social change

The academy needs to look beyond knowledge transfer to co-production when it comes to working with the third sector, a report says

Researchers must learn to think like marketers if they want policymakers to listen, suggests discussion paper

Producing ‘real’ books builds academics’ collective public presence, and it is also the most irresistible scholarly challenge, says Ödül Bozkurt

Increased funding is now available applying and commercialising research

Graduate start-ups also show employment and turnover growth, although fewer are being founded

The African Institute for Transformational Entrepreneurship will help propel Africa to the forefront of new knowledge creation, argues John Latham

Universities need to invest in the right people to make the leap from intellectual property to covetable product, says George Feiger

Working in our local areas is much more than charity for higher education institutions, says Stuart Laing

Hermann Hauser, who led efforts to launch Catapult network of commercialisation centres, sees a major cultural difference between UK and Germany

Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts

In the first of a series of blogs based on the opening seminar of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Paul Ashwin takes a fresh look at a thorny concept

Getting politicians to learn the lessons of history can sometimes require an indirect approach, Queen Mary event hears

Researchers set out how academic insights can build trust between different groups

Scholars in the UK and Australia contemptuous of impact statements and often exaggerate them, study suggests

Despite claims that engagement with business is as important as research and teaching, academics find they have no time for work outside the academy

Scholar describes how mathematicians take their audience on a journey to new peaks of discovery

After political scientists pitched to commissioning editors, the TV professionals passed on some advice

Australian academic Benjamin Habib reflects on the worst public embarrassment of his career

A Glasgow student has returned to his native city of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan inspired to embrace the ideals of a ‘learning city’

The world is impatient for the academy’s social benefits, writes Lisa Anderson, but its core mission remains a slow-flowering one

In praise of ambition: no university, however esteemed, has an automatic right to reach the 22nd century, argues Edward Byrne

Awareness of why some people make extensive use of management research at work can help researchers plan their dissemination strategies

Survey also finds that women do more work with the general public than male researchers

Three scholars share the pleasures and perils of sticking your head above the parapet

AHRC-funded festival flags up an astonishing variety of collaborative projects

Matthew Feldman reflects on academics’ place in the insatiable 24-hour news cycle

Researchers have employed a comedian to help them reach out to a wider public

University reaches out to its local community through dramatised performances in the city graveyard

A ‘genuinely public historian’ and charismatic lecturer has died

Institution’s School of Media, Arts and Design is 25 this year. Its current dean takes Times Higher Education through the reasons behind its success

Funding council extols virtues of Higher Education Innovation Funding as spending review cuts loom

An electrical engineer who pioneered major developments in signal processing has died

Acting director of new research centre set up with Lego Foundation money says aim will be to explore whether there really is evidence that play enhances education

Campuses are one of the ‘strongest bits of the innovation system’ and will be crucial to its ‘rebuild’, conference hears

Co-founder of investment firm says that more early career academics should be encouraged to think about the entrepreneurial route

Most REF case studies related simple, short-term impacts, missing a host of wider, longer-term effects, argues Trisha Greenhalgh

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says a lot of UK research would be reduced to ‘irrelevance’ in the event of Brexit

Reaching out offers many benefits to universities, says dean

But individuals are still much more likely to trust NHS sources of information on cancer

Fledgling company reaches out to the US sector to help broker university and industry collaboration

Part of the founding vice-chancellor’s vision lives on at the University of Essex

Jon Marcus travels to the Big Easy to see the varying fortunes of the city’s universities

Ellie Bothwell introduces our four ‘innovation indicators’ and reveals the strongest performers as we visualise a new ranking based on university-industry collaboration

Pro bono advice on campus is an engagement with student training at its core, says Zahir Irani

Director of knowledge exchange hub says that the arts and humanities can play a key role in bringing creative companies and academics together

Andrew Palmer on using the thinktank approach to solve problems that conventional research could take years to answer

The University of Surrey’s centre for testing the next generation of mobile technology has seen significant buy-in from industry