Research funding

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

Australian policy guru suggests complete rethink of research funding to overcome ‘opportunity cost’ of unsuccessful grant applications

High-profile pledge to spend £60 million a year on maths research has not been fulfilled, MPs hear

The president of the University of Würzburg discusses the differences between the two systems, why he’s joined a European university alliance and the benefits of interdisciplinary working

Stabilisation funding, fellowships and industry collaboration grants identified as key priorities, but questions about whether country can successfully replicate Brussels schemes remain

Funder pushes deadline for awardees to finalise departure plans or lose EU funding back to 29 June

This year’s positive financial results mask urgent need for historic reform to ease reliance on international students, says Nobelist

‘Deeply problematic’ deadlock over Britain’s membership of European research scheme cannot continue, warns science minister ahead of ‘last round of talks’

Cambridge scientist who forfeited EU research funding says industry will suffer badly from loss of influence

Universities UK says ministers are ‘on the precipice’ of walking away from negotiations and backing domestic alternative instead

Unprecedented three-year settlement for UK research body sets out increases for PhD funding and quality-related institutional grants

Halt on Norwegian Research Council calls and plans to cut or postpone others are ‘extremely serious’, sector says

From both the NIH and a leading philanthropist, nation’s researchers get new hope for cutting the huge waste of time and effort in bureaucratic reviews

Experts debate whether erosion of dominance will prompt redrawing of funding criteria

The extent of research‘s cross-subsidisation by overseas student fees is too rarely understood by policymakers and academics alike, says Ruth Arnold

Research minister shocks sector with purge at top of supposedly profligate funder

Government’s major research funders set hard deadline of 2029 for fair distribution of major federal science grant money and see gender exclusion as smart pathway

The REF may no longer be the only game in town, but it remains a dominant force in UK research. So as the REF 2021 results are released, is it still fit for purpose?

Pentagon fell short on promises to help HBCUs compete for research grants, though institutions see new motivation from foreign tensions

Science minister suggests disagreements with Michael Gove over role of Oxford, Cambridge and London institutions

Some grant holders exploring joint appointments with continental institutions as funding deadline looms

Some Advanced Grant winners must wait and see where their share of funding will come from

Researchers on tight deadline to decide whether to jump ship or accept replacement funding guarantee

Compromise between egalitarian and competitive ideals could usher in bigger university groupings and more interdisciplinary evaluation

Cutting-edge facilities are welcome but they achieve little without people to run them, science advocates point out

Russian Foundation for Basic Research looking at Rb1.15 billion decrease, while Moscow State University told to slash budget by 10 per cent

New opportunities for funding have been welcomed but future clashes over intellectual property could prove challenging

But promised infrastructure and research commercialisation funding could stretch thin

Australia’s big talk on science aspirations overlooks the skills needed to make it all happen, critics say

In fiscal 2023 budget plan, president seeks to bolster student and research grants, but without specific eye on community colleges and immigrant children

Canberra’s policy changes helped turn its big-ticket infrastructure schemes into pipe dreams, university-industry report argues

With new divisions at NIH and NSF, federal government making long-promised structural changes to get universities and their scientists beyond their silos

Ministers halt funding to programmes with ‘state and institutional collaborators’ but ‘small number’ of partnerships remain under review