Research

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”.  

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

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

An independent Scotland would seek to continue to share research councils with the remainder of the UK, a new blueprint for independence has said.

Sir Ivor Crewe - master of University College, Oxford - has been appointed as the next president of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Twenty institutions have been announced as winners of the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.

The idea that universities are hotbeds of incivility is implausible, says Emrys Westacott

The Economics of Higher Education network aims to highlight neglected areas of economic research on the sector

Review rejects MPs’ criticisms of gaps in its data

Corruption in the academy is being challenged by a ‘clean universities’ ranking and the power of press coverage, says Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Greater selectivity over future research excellence framework submissions urged under tougher funding regime

Geoffrey Alderman offers to supervise critic’s doctorate

A formal body should be set up to coordinate efforts to implement open access, the Finch Group has recommended.

Symposium considers drawing’s role in refining and communicating knowledge, from geology to surgery to unicorns

‘Big money’ grants foster ‘bookkeeping’ work at the expense of small-scale but potentially groundbreaking efforts, says Gary Thomas

London research giant attributes success to interdisciplinary approach

Research councils show value of restraint

Scotland risks losing its thriving research base if it becomes independent, analysis by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has claimed

The president of South Korea has visited Imperial College London to mark a series of agreements between the institution and Korean universities.

LSE research points to Whitehall ‘trying it on’

Reassurance and concerns stated over new framework’s requirements

Scholar hopes his ‘surreal’ action will show that excluded colleagues were ‘discriminated’ against

Academic denied permission to start new job until after REF deadline

‘Seriously flawed’ decision broke university regulations, QAA finds

But extant strategic decisions will not be revisited, Paul Golby says

Brownfield reclamation unites academics, artists and community

Major report on selective education used ‘inappropriate’ references

Manchester Met launches interdisciplinary Centre for Gothic Studies

Model is saving research from ‘scourge of irreproducibility’, says founder Moshe Pritsker

The death of his father prompts Nicholas Till to consider the interconnectedness of things

Students taking part in a huge nationwide debate have overwhelmingly disagreed with the notion of a full ban on animal testing in research

Students across the UK are this week taking part in what organisers believe will be the biggest public debate on animal research ever held.

Minutes suggest the pros and cons of strategies for submission

Vital academic work still missed by impact criteria and civil servants, forum hears

Witty recommends more collaboration, more funding and more weight for impact in REF

As the 2014 REF census date approaches, Paul Jump talks to the architects of previous rounds of assessment about how it all began and their views on the research excellence framework

The UK is the “biggest biosciences cluster in Europe” a report by the BioIndustry Association has said.

The UK has overtaken Japan to become China’s second most prolific research collaborator.

The last three universities to benefit from the current round of the government’s Research Partnership Investment Fund have been announced.