Research

Survey of more than 3,000 academics finds many are sceptical about scholarship they come across

Individuals should be able to choose their own work-life balance depending on their life situation and level of ambition, says Lee Cronin

Mounting workloads and mushrooming publication output are making the task of staying abreast of the latest developments in the literature ever more difficult for academics. Here, eight researchers reflect on their own approaches and offer their tips

Gap in acceptance rates for major European conferences entirely down to behaviour of male referees

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has often been at the centre of contemporary political battles over the country’s communist past

Academics are wary of directly verifying whether videos are faked, and warn they need social media companies to cooperate

As academics fault journals on open access, data suggests significant responsibility also lies with professors

Europe and Japan take different approach to US and China on potential risks of technology

Data underline strength of links built via EU framework programmes and highlight amount of work needed to develop ties further afield

Pan-continental prosperity will suffer if the UK’s near-absence from the European University project is a sign of things to come, says Martin Paul

Inadequate funding and lack of interregional collaboration hindering much-needed scholarship, report says

Stuttering reforms and party control of academics hinder country’s extraordinary scientific rise

In an age of vast team-science projects, it is more important than ever that leaders be properly prepared, says Matthew Flinders

The biocultural archaeologist talks about the lessons to be learned from Neolithic catastrophes and the ethical responsibilities of being ‘doctor to the dead’

Performance art is inherently ephemeral and can be highly controversial. But Matthew Reisz hears why the blood-soaked relics from one performer’s challenging shows are worth preserving and studying

Marking down fellowship applicants for being unwilling to move institutions can be deeply unfair, say Trisha Greenhalgh and Ed Hawkins

Tropical breakthrough represents the latest research application for the tiny aircraft

Scientists still stymied by federal restrictions as legalisation in states increases demand for answers on risk and benefits

The ‘best’ scientists lack time for peer review, and academics should be rated for ‘worthy’ papers, argues Dan Shechtman

Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London join forces to bring insights from physics, AI and data into cancer science

New analysis charts 40-fold increase in quantity of co-authored papers and 100-fold surge in quality

Study pinpoints ‘disconnect’ between what academics value when submitting work for publication, and what they think others value

A Times Higher Education survey bears out the growing difficulty of finding time for research

Summer is upon northern hemisphere academics. But its cherished traditional identity as a time for intensive research is being challenged by the increasing obligations around teaching and administration that often crowd out research entirely during term time. So is the 40/40/20 workload model still sustainable? Respondents to a THE survey suggest not. Nick Mayo hears why

Landmark development ‘blurs boundaries between education and research’ and aims to deliver work experience for students

Leiden University acted unlawfully, a court has ruled, in using anonymous letter to discredit an applicant for a professorship

UUK and Russell Group issue appeals after former shadow HE minister’s victory in Tory leadership race

Michael Kosterlitz tells THE how colour blindness shaped his career and why Nobel winners shouldn’t be taken too seriously

The long overdue top-up to England’s quality-related funding stream is a reminder that project grants are not the only show on the beach

Even in disciplines in which research is inherently inexpensive, ‘grant capture’ is increasingly being adopted as a metric to judge academics and universities. But with success rates typically little better than one in five, rejection is the fate of most applications. Six academics give their tips on how to improve the odds

Nesta finds proportion of female AI researchers was higher in the mid-1990s – although universities fare better than tech firms

The next EU commissioner for research and innovation must fight for the Horizon Europe budget but resist timetables for scientific delivery, says Jan Palmowski

UCL centre, about to welcome new director, shows how slavery shaped UK – with implications for universities

US’ top producer of research papers hopes stance will force major gains in open access

Getting stuck for words is not just a plight felt by tortured novelists – here, academics share their top tips for productivity

All modern academics know that it’s publish or perish, but is regular publication a gateway or a barrier to groundbreaking scholarship? Simon Baker assesses the data on the relationship between research volume and quality and asks which, if either, should be prioritised

FBI views academic collaboration with Chinese institutions as ‘sharing with the enemy’, says attorney for sacked geneticists

Uclan joins University of Cape Town in adopting rules to stamp out export of unethical research practices to poorer countries

Recent confusion over The Lancet’s stance on green open access highlights the difficulty for support staff in preparing researchers for the new rules, says Alice Gibson

‘Pockets of excellence’ in non-Russell Group institutions could be emptied, some fear

Daughter of academic immigrants has plenty of history on higher education policies

‘Bad science’ could gain traction in the country as academics seek not to provoke regime

Matthew Reisz considers the fascinating, painful and plain bizarre topics addressed by researchers exploring one of the last taboos

Founder of Ligo project reveals some researchers have left over a lack of recognition, exposing wider attribution difficulties for large teams

Colleagues may look askance at ‘the death squad’, but while teaching and research into one of life’s only two certainties may be taxing, it is also vital, Matthew Reisz hears

Data suggest that single authorship is continuing to decline across the world, but will it always have a place?

In Russia and Indonesia, more than a third of research produced without international collaboration fails to gain single citation

Budget restrictions, a focus on teaching and a paucity of internationalisation all hold back Turkish research, says Hakan Ergin

With such wide disagreements in grading, the research excellence framework’s gravity for careers is unjustifiable, says Philip Moriarty

New centre vows to tackle ‘loss of trust’ driven by technological change

New scorecards demonstrate the payoffs from international collaboration

Analysis of more than 120 million academic publications since the beginning of the 19th century shows more is more as academics compete for attention

Promotion criteria requiring top researchers to also be good teachers and managers undermine the nature of universities, says Andrew Oswald

Large universities drop down list looking at high quality research once overall natural science output is taken into account

Raising UK outlay to international levels will reap rich technological, social and political rewards for the next Conservative Party leader, says Sarah Main 

Embedded integrity practices sustained knowledge systems that have evolved for millennia, says RMIT leader

Treating the sciences and the humanities as separate worlds does employers and students no favours, says award-winning interdisciplinarian

‘Reviewer 2’ is blamed by many academics for much of the stress and anxiety of publication – but the fightback is under way

There is nothing devilish about government oversight of research, but the Haldane Principle checks more sulphurous instincts, says Paul Jump

Last year’s scandal over the ministerial vetoing of Australian research grants coincided with the centenary of the fabled principle that politicians should keep out of such decisions. But with governments becoming increasingly ideological and desperate for innovation-fuelled growth, does scientific autonomy have a future? Rachael Pells investigates