Research funding

US is the ‘elephant in the room’ in a policy that seeks to attract overseas talent and money, says academic

Sir David MacMillan and Dame Kate Bingham join board as ‘high-risk, high-reward’ starts work

Sciences gain £145 million that would have gone to humanities and social sciences under old system

Former political advisers say frequently used figures to advocate for research funding do not sway government thinking

Funders should review how interviews, eligibility criteria and internal selection policies work against marginalised groups, says study co-funded by Wellcome and Oxford

Ban could prompt brain drain, warn experts, while university foundations are likely to be restocked with loyalists

Tweaks to assessment processes are designed to broaden assessment and mollify disciplines that felt disadvantaged

Stopgap solution will run out in April, when symbolic deadline for resolving a wider EU-UK dispute over Northern Ireland will present itself

Science minister George Freeman launches International Science Partnerships Fund at THE event in Japan, with initial funding of £119 million

Australian university representatives warn of unintended consequences from two-year limit in new workplace relations act

White paper vows to reshape science sector but also shies away from suggested creation of base operating grants for institutions

Top provider of basic research funding to US higher education hopes that a narrower set of evaluation criteria will aid black scientists and better retain expert reviewers

Critics claim victory as assessment of research benefits is handed back to the experts

Additional funding announced by Research England might not cover shortfalls faced by research powerhouses

Narrow line between success and failure in latest round of Australian competitive grant funding

Discussing growing influence of philanthropic donors, experts stress need for transparency and careful thinking

Westminster government provides £30 million for ‘talent and stabilisation fund’ and pumps extra £100 million of quality-related support into English universities

Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ‘left-behind areas’ driving growth sectors

Consensus with regions and reversals by parliament’s budget committee help keep coalition promises

But lead negotiator for parliament’s research committee said refusal to plough more unspent funds back into programme ‘cannot stand’ 

Funding council reviewer signals intent to recommend ditching ERA, rewriting national interest test and circumscribing veto power

New Australian arrangement hailed as long overdue by many, but critics warn of unintended consequences

Pause of Norway’s prestigious investigator-led grants comes as EU alternatives also face the chopping block

The emphasis on bringing in money above all else is killing researchers’ passion for discovery, says Aymen Idris

Go8 questions outsiders’ commitment to research, after advisory body raises doubts over education’s contribution to productivity

A sunny outlook on student enrolments is marred by the persistent lack of money for research in the field, says association chair

Business secretary hails research as ‘critical way to turbocharge Britain’s growth’, in Sunak administration’s first major move on science

The new prime minister’s orthodoxy will prevent a repeat of the Iron Lady’s raid on the science and higher education budgets, says Terence Kealey

Biden team suggests following lead of China and Europe and putting science dollars in the hands of its diplomats to secure geopolitical benefits

Universities must tackle issues that ‘reduce enthusiasm for investment’ to defend teaching and research budgets ‘inevitably under threat’, says Iain Mansfield

Ex-minister George Freeman urges sector to ‘mobilise’ to show R&D key to growth, despite securing Treasury commitment not to cut science budget

New minister Nusrat Ghani tells MPs that research spending commitments remain ‘in place’

NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan highlights need to exploit vast talent beyond the nation’s elite universities

‘Short horizons’ of grant-givers holding back early career researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds, says Glasgow principal

European finance ministers told to abandon ‘absurd’ plan to shift unspent Horizon funding elsewhere in their squeezed 2023 budget

Alternative to Horizon Europe should examine why ‘closed clubs’ of elite universities enjoy so much funding success, says Hepi report

Disappointment as ‘mini budget’ contains no new commitments on research funding or support for students

Top US funder of basic research warns it will tally and punish cases of yelling, threats and other abuses by scientists losing grant competitions

ARC reveals macro scale of its micro-management of funding applicants’ statements

Prime minister says researchers should be able to work ‘without looking over their shoulder’

Applications for up to £10,000 in funding that pass an initial quality test will be picked at random

Grant delays worse than ever, researchers say, as ARC strives to meet demands of ousted government

Hopes that formal escalation of a prolonged political stand-off will finally allow UK-based researchers to participate in EU programmes

Biggest beneficiaries from excellence-driven funds will leverage uplift to secure additional funding and win political arguments, say pro vice-chancellors

Outgoing prime minister’s pro-science messaging has been ever-present during his time in Downing Street but has he delivered for research? Jack Grove considers his legacy

Change comes after consultants find leading biomedical research funder is ‘still an institutionally racist organisation’

Sparked by fear of Chinese technological competitiveness, Congress acts to double NSF budget with push for applied technology

Modern institutions get millions more in quality-related grants, in first allocations to use 2021 REF results

The bumper increase in QR funding for England may sound like heaven. But with doubts over the future of Horizon, UK research is stuck in purgatory

Successful replication efforts heavily tied to whether original research team allowed a role, finds study of contentious psychology field

Research England unveils substantial uplifts for both quality-related research funding and knowledge exchange activities

Precarity is a debilitating condition that often proves fatal to research careers. And it affects even the most lauded research groups

Science minister hits out at lack of Treasury support for Plan B science scheme amid Westminster chaos

But new Australian education minister silent on sector’s calls for more spending on teaching and research

If the balance of the £300 million promised by the UK government is not delivered, a broad swathe of research will suffer, says Ulrike Tillmann

Analysis suggests philosophy professor’s old department may net as much as £333,000 from the activities that saw her targeted by activists

Ditching high-profile pledge to spend £300 million more on maths research over next five years will harm under-pressure discipline, experts warn

Science leaders beg Ursula von der Leyen to break political impasse

European doctoral body says funders must recognise that current financial support is often insufficient for PhD researchers

Despite known risk, politicians from states with weak science records push dramatic expansion of affirmative-action-style set-asides for federal dollars