Research

Many Italians have refused to take part in the country’s research assessment exercise. Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao consider the protest’s impact

China’s motives, like the West’s, are mixed, but it clearly has a role to play in building capacity in African higher education

Ellie Bothwell reports on what both regions gain – and lose – from the Sino-African partnership

Negative stories including collapse of Kids Company appear to be making the public more wary of major research funders

Although the UK does well in competitive grant funding, it loses out on EU structural funds

After months of criticism over potential chilling effect of new rules, campaigners say clarification is ‘good news’

Li Keqiang also demands institutions stop duplicating research

Tim Softley, Peter Schiffer and Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela explain the benefits of a transatlantic partnership

Paper explores the emotional costs for women of working in ultra-competitive environments

Wellcome Trust Monitor Report finds more certainty about the benefits of breakthroughs, but a mixed picture of general scientific knowledge

Take it as a compliment if other people are doing similar studies to you, says Sam Schwarzkopf

Lack of independent working blamed for difficulties making the leap from undergraduate to doctoral work

Academic casts doubt on universities’ spin-off success and impact on SMEs

Russell Group and University Alliance at loggerheads over whether next research excellence framework should assess more at university level

David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

We know too little about the impact of a research council that funds work with big policy implications, says David Walker

How should universities handle breakdowns in PhD student-supervisor relationships?

The UK has the most institutions in the Times Higher Education 150 Under 50 Rankings 2016

Outdated view that modern universities exert only local influence should be challenged, Hefce’s David Sweeney tells Barcelona event

Work on University of Chester archive earns researchers rebuke for laughing in library

Scientific misconduct increasingly studied as example of ‘occupational crime’, researcher says

Katherine Firth on why you should approach texts less like a Victorian maiden and more like a pirate hero

Groundbreaking study of how target-driven strategies affect staff has attracted international support

Do changes to degree courses reflect a more pluralistic society or are they driven by a desire for more radical approaches?

Author of new research on dealing with stress in universities says focus should shift to how to cope better with the problem

Sometimes you need someone as controversial as psychologist Hans Eysenck to advance science, says Philip Corr

Universities need to invest in the right people to make the leap from intellectual property to covetable product, says George Feiger

Youth is not a bar to excellence, despite older institutions’ rankings success. Jack Grove analyses how some youthful contenders have risen in the ranks

Interviewees on dating app who wanted to be ‘used for academic purposes’ highlight the difficulties of using new technology for research

Liberals’ first budget also includes extra support for students

Hermann Hauser, who led efforts to launch Catapult network of commercialisation centres, sees a major cultural difference between UK and Germany

Replacements sought for departing Craig Calhoun and Sir Leszek Borysiewicz

Tim Birkhead warns of the ‘end of science’ unless academics push back against threats to creativity and integrity

Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals

People contemplating a criminal career might do well to stay in and do their homework

Aaron Huertas offers advice on how to overcome perceptions of being cold but competent 

A work that straddles subject boundaries is an unattractive prospect for publishers, finds Martin Parker

In giving short shrift to the production of modern interpretations, classicists consign their work to narrow academic circles, says Emma Gee

As the number of papers needing review increases, journals are thinking of replacing a voluntary system with cash rewards

Academic is awarded Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for solving Fermat’s Last Theorem

Interviews paint a bleak picture of morale at Yonsei University, raising further concerns about country’s attempt to internationalise

Several research-intensive universities are on list, but many institutions dispute the findings

As the social media platform celebrates its 10th anniversary, Jack Grove examines how it has changed doctoral study

Jeffrey Lehman says American universities have the resources and autonomy to be innovative

Researchers set out how academic insights can build trust between different groups

Joint PhD programmes that split doctoral studies between different universities may help to improve low outward mobility

Ellie Bothwell examines strengths and weaknesses in different higher education systems across the Continent

Scholars in the UK and Australia contemptuous of impact statements and often exaggerate them, study suggests

Might mass polls by live audiences actually be a better way to choose the right applicant?

But authors of original paper hit back, saying latest assessment is ‘very optimistic’

Although overall resource funding will rise, most of this extra money will go to multidisciplinary research

A new joint PhD programme is part of a ‘new era of close collaboration’ between the UK and Australian universities, say v-cs

German academic looking at UK system raises concerns over incentives created by research excellence framework

Study explores challenges of carrying out qualitative work

UK universities’ research links would be harmed and their ‘philosophy’ lost to Continent, John Morgan is told in Berlin and Munich

Female researchers now account for 37 per cent of first authors in medicine’s top journals, says US study

Nanyang Technological University president Bertil Andersson says Singapore has been much better at improving universities

Like the Scottish independence referendum, the uncertainty of a post-Brexit negotiation makes fact-checking very difficult

Collaboration with Europe has grown dramatically since 2000, according to analysis