Research

Ideas Roadshow aims to improve non-experts’ understanding of research fields from maths to philosophy and subjects including brain science

A process at the heart of science is based on faith rather than evidence, says Richard Smith, and vested interests keep it in place

The British Library has received earmarked funds of more than £9.5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund to put the nation’s sounds online.    

Researcher finds reactions to Shakespeare performance vary wildly across continent

Black scholar at UCL claims that he lost out on a permanent job after his proposed course ‘scared’ the academy

Researchers are advised to learn how to manage their own expectations and to be synergistic. Plus the latest higher education appointments

The head of a research council is leaving to take up a position at a London university

The British Academy has launched a call for evidence on a new project exploring the nature and challenges of interdisciplinary research.

Next week will see scientists in 12 UK cities – and 8 other countries – presenting their research to audiences in pubs.

The High Court has ruled that an animal rights organisation can bring a judicial review against the Home Office

To study mass tourism, Hazel Andrews entered a world of binge-drinking, sexism and racism. She describes why she did it and what she learned

Scholar Will Brooker says comic-book giant’s new-look superheroine seems to share traits with his own series

Universities, and especially the research elite, faced a choice between aiming for highest quality scores and the greatest number of staff submitted

Michael Stewart uses inaugural lecture to criticise social sciences and arts in particular for being too insular

Historians await legal judgment over heirs’ demands for payments from academics citing Joseph Goebbels’ diaries

A tale of quiet devotion to scholarship seems all the more poignant given the relentless nature of today’s academy, says Rachel Carey

Journalists who set the news agenda have short attention spans. By helping them, researchers can help to get coverage for their work

Move angers universities, who say plan to take funds from research pot have yet to be approved by European Parliament

Carlos Moedas says gender and international diversity will yield gold

Mass lobby in Brussels for Horizon 2020 funding ‘draws line in the sand’ on cuts

University of Sheffield project to leave 4,000 coasters in bars to gather data on public attitudes to politics and democracy

Scholar from Northumbria University created verbatim play to mark 20th anniversary using dialogue from a wide range of people

Proposed Horizon 2020 changes could mean millions lost, says delegation

Five academics detail how taking leave of the grind has turbocharged their work – but can everyone get a break?

Hundreds of researchers sign letter warning of cost of focusing exclusively on business-led priorities

Around 30 UK vice-chancellors have travelled to Brussels to lobby European policymakers against potential cuts to research funding.

The director of a partnership of research-intensive universities is upbeat about future outlook

LSE pro-director also calls for metrics to measure impact

Academics find complicity with neoliberal values hard to avoid, forum hears

When Hurricane Isaac forced the cancellation of a political science conference, researchers were able to pinpoint the value of presenting papers

Diverting Horizon cash to investment fund will boost financial ‘firepower’, says Carlos Moedas

The history of binary arithmetic shows that we should be concerned about pressure to demonstrate the immediate value of discoveries, says Lloyd Strickland

Funding gains for smaller universities ‘risks UK research quality’

Findings reveal the total cost to institutions of attempting to articulate impact

The Royal Archives have launched a major project to make their complete collection of Georgian papers available online

Partnership between UCL IoE, Lancaster and Sheffield aims to boost research in the field

Informing government policy was the most common kind of impact submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework, a study has found

Outdated practices and lack of simplicity result in ‘unfindable’ work, Carole Goble tells Jisc Digital Festival 2015

Emma Rees investigates research where selfhood and scholarship are intertwined

The case for research funding in the humanities is stronger if we recognise the similarities, argues David Eastwood

This flawed publication is symptomatic of a deeper malaise in business and management studies, says Dennis Tourish

Research council chief insists the benefits of narrowing funding range for grants scheme outweigh risks

Goldsmiths occultism conference hears defence of irrationality

Felipe Fernández-Armesto laments our giant-killing culture

Scientists are being urged to lobby MPs and parliamentary candidates to back an increase in the UK’s level of public investment in research

Concerns over open access publisher as journal containing ‘world’s shortest review’ disappears from Pharma Research Library list

‘Management review’ led to removal of academic who harassed researcher

Nature is offering anonymity for both reviewer and reviewed, but questions remain about value and effectiveness of the approach

Dominic Dean has a plan to make future assessment exercises easier, quicker and better

The Haldane principle must not be a “prison” that stops research from accessing “substantial sums of money” from areas outside the science budget

A major reorganisation of quality-related funding in Scotland will take money away from the “ancient” universities and hand it to newer institutions

Analysis reveals the winners and losers under ‘shaping capabilities’ programme

Seeking impact? Undertake research that prepares the ground for key political debates, says ex-Westminster insider Meg Russell

Judith Ackroyd and Jill Robinson explain why they are dramatising material from confidential interviews with university leaders

A play based on an academic study of the stresses and satisfactions of care work in dementia wards has now set off on a six-venue tour

Division as scholars analyse Hefce’s system for dividing £1 billion QR pot

The Association of Business Schools has released its latest ranking of periodicals, but not everyone welcomes it

Group will be made up of experts and prominent figures from across higher education

Oxford blogger publishes citation count for autism expert, who ran two Elsevier titles

England’s funding council has changed the formula for distributing quality-related research funding following the research excellence framework