Research

How does a tiny institution create such outsized impact?

A commitment by government to consult over a long-term plan for science capital investment has been welcomed by the Lords Science and Technology Committee.

Cambridge v-c and former Archbishop among those examining the topic

Commissioner tells academics to ‘get cracking’ on proposals

Southampton pro v-c to take over from David Delpy

Food, feminism and assumptions about asylum seekers among areas explored in eight AHRC-backed projects

Quality of papers rises in units led by strong researchers, study claims

Loughborough academic alleges ‘process problem’ with journal’s trust-based system

Find out how academics and professional and support staff feel about working in UK higher education

Universities are now like Jeremy Bentham, hollow husks of their former selves, laments Christopher Bigsby

Cambridge to put plan to set up new chair to vote after $6 million donation from Avery-Tsui Foundation

A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17^th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson

Queen’s and Ulster can take part in Science Foundation Ireland’s Investigators Programme

Analysis critical of professor’s discovery claim is published on arXiv

Addressing global problems should be the academy’s raison d’être, argues Nicholas Maxwell

Roger Jeffery on the difficulties of achieving equity in authorship in multinational teams

The Natural Environment Research Council would not contemplate fully privatising its centres, its chief executive has pledged

The use of crowdfunding to finance research could be used by the government as an excuse to cut public spending, an expert has warned

Spending bill also contains open-access mandate for NIH research

Pelvis fragment ‘could belong to King Alfred’

Work is under way to ensure that big data do not mean big headaches for researchers in the physical sciences

Evidence is vital, but don’t reject intuition, Felipe Fernández-Armesto says

Scientists can speak more freely without fear of being sued, explains Síle Lane

Hefce launches review of digital publishing in the arts and humanities

UK-based researchers have claimed the lion’s share of the European Research Council’s new consolidator grants, announced today

At least 19 additional Centres for Doctoral Training will be announced by David Willetts at Imperial College London today.

LSE scholars call for ‘shorter, better, faster, free’ studies and bigger share of research funding

Research conduct, reporting and management needs overhaul, says Lancet study

Britain needs Fraunhofer centres as well as Catapults if the ‘invention revolution’ is to materialise, asserts Tim Holt

College of Policing pushes research agenda with grants for joint projects

Studies based on ‘misleading literature’ may have to be revised or retracted, claims Loughborough scientist

Ruth Barcan believes such feelings are a logical response to a broken academic system

Scientists stuck on a ship in Antarctica as part of a research project have finally seen an end to their 10-day ordeal

The neglected, inaccessible land beside arterial routes is the subject of an exhibition and book

Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses life and scholarly work at the heart of the Soviet system

Scientific share options flourish despite calls for boycott

Brian Martin suggests how junior researchers can fight against the well-kept secret of academic exploitation

Kevin Fong’s method to raise present standards

Ideology and myopia threatens the future of some of the UK’s best humanities departments, warns Louis Goddard

Beijing wants to supercharge its nation’s universities as it has its railroads, but might its ambitions falter for want of academic freedom and cultural change?

The European Commission has announced the new president of the European Research Council.

Work amassed over several decades by Khoan and Michael Sullivan

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman has pledged to stop publishing in “luxury journals”, which he believes contribute to the “disfigurement” of science.

Data gathering can be a dangerous business, oceanographer Penny Holliday tells Paul Jump

Industry and funders still back blue-skies thinking, doctoral conference hears

Enthusiasm for ‘neuroeducation’ risks blinding people to its potentially limited efficacy, argues Steven Rose

A list of recommendations on improving management of animal research at Imperial College London should “resonate” across the UK, their authors say

UK research has higher citation impact than that of any comparator nation, a report commissioned by the government has revealed.

The government has given quantum technologies research a boost in the autumn statement.

Fears that universities would be more selective about who they submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework have proved unfounded.

New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley likes to disseminate elements of her work for public

Bird numbers in Britain and Ireland - monitored with the aid of citizen scientists - are falling. Tim Birkhead calls for action

African American scholars still struggle for public prominence outside discussions of racial justice, says Daniel Matlin

HESA announces publication date for data on number of researchers eligible for submission

A further 10 UK universities have gained an award that recognises commitment to developing the careers of researchers.

A new booklet has been launched on the role of social science in promoting “mental wellbeing”.  

In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark

Council pushes government to provide additional funding in light of abundance of high quality bids to run centres for doctoral training

Student collaboration blends skills to take fresh look at knowledge

THE straw poll shows efforts to lighten load have backfired