Research

Edge Hill scholar turns a queer eye on ageing

Canadian researchers call for volte-face on global funding trend

How Jo Brewis and fellow Vida members aim to give women space to think

Calls to restrict fields’ funds and scope of study alarm US academics

A paucity of suitable sites, a “stand-offish” attitude and a lack of coordinated, long-term planning are all to blame for the scarcity of large international scientific facilities on UK soil, the Lords Science and Technology committee has been told. 

The scientist who developed the first-ever prototype for an “invisibility cloak” has been given a top award by the Institute of Physics.

Glasgow Caledonian University has said it is happy that the PhD thesis of Iran’s new president elect is properly referenced and is not undertaking a formal academic investigation

The insurance group AXA has funded a €1 million (£850,000) chair at Imperial College London.

A former director of research at England’s funding council has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University.

The European Union’s next research and innovation funding programme, known as Horizon 2020, looks set to begin on schedule next year

Announcement comes as new details emerge about increased science capital budget

Students offered ‘fun, novel’ way to learn how to write paper ‘abstracts’

Funds are allocated on project quality not desire to support elite, says minister. Chris Parr reports

Pat Monaghan and Tim Birkhead call for variation to be the theme once more in university biology

University defends short-term contracts as source criticises ‘game-playing’

We are paying too high a price for 100,000 genomes more, warns Bill Amos

The capital budget for science will be increased to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Science should be able to bid against other spending areas such as road-building for capital investment, the chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has argued.

A conference being held this week is setting out to revive a neglected area of research which the Arab Spring has put back in the world’s spotlight.

Study suggests women more likely than men to turn down invitations to speak

Consultation to consider use of metrics and case studies in research assessment

The number of journals denied an impact factor for taking part in citation cartels has risen sharply this year, pushing up the total number of excluded journals.

The UK government must be among those reassuring the public that genetically modified crops are “a safe, proven and beneficial innovation”, environment secretary Owen Paterson has said.

Medical research charities want funding protected in spending review

Hefce reveals 215 assessors chosen from outside academy

Madeleine Blaess’ journal gets screen treatment

Great medical record captures public heart and state wallet

Minister wins fans for affirming value of data

Lisa Downing on why the erosion of women’s, gender and sexuality studies in UK universities is cause for concern

Fire-damaged survey ordered by Charles I yields its secrets at last

Cuts to widening participation funds anticipated to meet spending review targets

Scientific research in the UK has been harmed by the current spending freeze, a report has claimed

Digital collection of 5 million pages aims to ‘open window’ on to India’s recent past

Psychology lecturer picks up gong for her work on sex and relationship advice

Anthropologist gets her hands dirty with Big Apple’s sanitation workers

Website dedicated to uncovering academic misconduct goes global

The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review

Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study

Scholarly talent search winners for 2013 to bring insights to the nation

Crowdsourcing is invaluable to researchers, but why do people do it and how can their interest be maintained?

Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would “pose a significant threat to the UK’s leading position” in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.

Jackie Hunter has been appointed as chief executive and deputy chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Hundreds of people have signed a petition protesting about new quarterly journal Porn Studies that is due to launch in spring next year.

Without proper reporting social and psychological experiments are a “waste of money”, researchers have said.

The Wellcome Trust has announced plans to extend its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters

Leaders lead, not their brains, argue Dirk Lindebaum and Mike Zundel

When anthropologists pointed out that cultural factors impeded tropical disease treatment campaigns, some fellow scientists reacted with outrage

Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz

Study identifies better use of research capacity outside Anglo-American sphere

Nation likely to lose fruitful position in UK research system, experts say

A derelict research lab once used by Sir James Black is revived in an artistic installation

Getting image permissions for monographs is costly, slow and vexing

Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour

The publisher Elsevier has disassociated itself from an article by a trade association it belongs to that condemns proposed open-access mandates in several US states.

The University of Glasgow has finally confirmed that a former professor was found guilty of falsifying data in five papers by an investigation that ended last August.

Coalition of academics, publishers and funders rejects metric ‘obsession’

The government would like to see more publishers take up schemes that waive open access publishing fees for researchers from universities that subscribe to its journals, a senior civil servant has said.