Research

Academics should get out of their bubbles and engage, not deride, says Rachel Carey

UK exit from EU research would boost success rates for other countries – but at cost of quality, experts warn

British universities would be ‘most affected’ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns

Country’s funding councils say institutions must offer research chairs positions to diverse pool of candidates

THE analysis shines a light on institutions that have thought outside the box on research collaboration and funding

UK universities rely on international researchers, say Susan Guthrie and Catie Lichten, but is the pressure on researchers to be mobile too great?

Witnessing the work of military surgical teams in Afghanistan caused conflicting emotions in an academic author and a sense of the futility of war and of his own profession

System rewards academics whose work is used in teaching – but at potential bureaucracy cost

Scholars more likely to falsify or fabricate data if they 'can get away with it', researchers say

Peer review process punishes academics who ‘challenge the dogma’ of their field, scientists claim

Critics call proposal for world-first professional recognition system ‘demented’

Serious novels promote the trust and people skills that societies need. They should be required reading for all degrees, says Peter Taylor-Gooby

The work of 500 scientists transformed the 20th century. Universities and funders must do more to make certain that the flow of groundbreaking discoveries continues, says Donald Braben 

With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren Bebbington outlines a survival strategy for the increasingly unaffordable traditional university

Duke University challenge on visualising scholarly collaboration produces treasure trove of results

It's not just about papers. Running a university in Papua New Guinea has cast academic impact in a more exotic light for John Warren

THE DataPoints figures detail how country has surpassed India but still lags behind South Korea

British researchers no longer win the most grants for established scientists, having already fallen behind in early career category

V-c warns that European Court of Justice role in grant disputes makes UK association ‘difficult to see’

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Horizon 2020 could have more success getting technologies off the ground if it does not neglect the basic work that sparks breakthroughs, say Geert de Snoo, Floor Frederiks, Peter Lievens and Katrien Maes

An academic conference in the world’s northern-most human settlement was a profoundly unsettling – and enlightening – experience for Randy Malamud

Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own

Academic calls on Facebook and Twitter to share more information with scholars

Susan Michie calls for a radical upgrade in the use of social science to tackle poor public health

Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns

Transparency ‘crucial’ to the introduction of new metrics in Continent’s research system

Code of conduct frames non-publication of unexpected results as an issue of research integrity

John Morgan finds sector statements on ‘momentous day’ taste a little bland

Sociologists make the case for observational drawing to be part of the research process

Two-thirds of funding over past three years went to just 20 institutions 

Analysis of co-authored journal papers details partnerships beyond EU

Larissa Shamseer and David Moher have taken a close look at what it is that sets dodgy journals apart from the rest

While learning to work quickly is a useful life skill, a greater gift to students is permitting unhurried excursions and digressions, says Shahidha Bari

Conducting clinical trials during an epidemic for the first time, researchers fast-tracked the creation of a vaccine for Ebola, but not before 11,000 people had died

Country’s publications in high-quality journals decline in relative and absolute terms

Institutions need to be excellent across the board to attract leading researchers, analysis warns

Carlos Moedas defends research council as discussions build over next framework programme

Amid crisis over reproducibility, agencies face call for ‘greater transparency and accountability’

Government analysis finds most academics think postgraduate research standards have held steady or improved

Health and environmental agencies face savage reductions as defence spending soars

Findings from the German Excellence Initiative raise questions over impact of TEF

Latest data on research grants show just how much UK institutions get from the EU

Life science is a big part of the UK government’s industrial strategy, but neglecting basic research will drive top researchers abroad and threaten the flow of translatable discoveries, says Philippe Froguel

James Tooley reflects on who helped him, who let him down and what he learned from his time in prison in Hyderabad

Universities on the continent must shun xenophobia themselves, THE-Ulsan event hears

Early signs of new administration’s attitude to research funding worry experts

Discussion of research excellence framework reform has overlooked the role of research itself, argues Kevin Hetherington

Comments are a further sign that European institutions are gearing up to poach UK-based researchers

John Morgan looks at the universities in Asia and beyond that have forged the closest ties with industrial partners

Elsevier report highlights countries and subjects where gender equality is improving the most

Chancellor Philip Hammond allocates previously announced industrial strategy funding

THE analysis reveals the 53 institutions that could surpass Oxbridge and the Ivy League

First THE Asia Pacific university ranking will be launched at the event