Research

Virtual research institute aims to overcome geography by providing grants and funding a joint PhD programme

His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement

Government taking reports ‘extremely seriously’ and seeking ‘additional briefing’

Changing academic environment prompts rethink of globally influential employment support guidelines 

Americans produce nearly twice as many highly cited papers in key fields, with China also catching up on EU

Attempt at overseas recruitment part of wider bid to internationalise universities

Royal Irish Academy survey respondents warn against hard border between North and South

European Commission interim evaluation highlights ‘oversubscription’ in funding bids

Conference hears conflicting views on how to stamp out fraud in research

Greg Simon, former executive director of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, claims universities are resistant to change

Vice-president says universities must convince researchers that journal articles are not the only way to disseminate knowledge

South African minister says many collaborations amount to little more than ‘visits’

Ellie Bothwell talks with the KAUST president about effective leadership, securing funding and the importance of keeping the local public onside

New institute will receive €10 million a year for interdisciplinary research

Report urges academy to ‘embrace’ opportunities for wider research dissemination

We examine citation data to get an idea of the most exciting and potentially ground-breaking research topics

Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

But research organisations say proposed directive does not go far enough and could hinder links with companies

Elsevier data show that China produces vast quantities of papers in field but lags on quality

US scholar argues that academics punch above their weight in key discoveries

European Commissioner for research sees Jordan investment as contribution to peace and stability

Overseas members and evaluators excluded in what critics claim is a power grab

As talks begin on Horizon 2020 successor, advisory body says level of competition prevents open data sharing

One in three scholars in field ‘deeply concerned’ about future research career prospects

Group of top Asian institutions aims to boost research collaboration and increase mobility

Academics should get out of their bubbles and engage, not deride, says Rachel Carey

UK exit from EU research would boost success rates for other countries – but at cost of quality, experts warn

British universities would be ‘most affected’ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns

Country’s funding councils say institutions must offer research chairs positions to diverse pool of candidates

THE analysis shines a light on institutions that have thought outside the box on research collaboration and funding

UK universities rely on international researchers, say Susan Guthrie and Catie Lichten, but is the pressure on researchers to be mobile too great?

Witnessing the work of military surgical teams in Afghanistan caused conflicting emotions in an academic author and a sense of the futility of war and of his own profession

System rewards academics whose work is used in teaching – but at potential bureaucracy cost

Scholars more likely to falsify or fabricate data if they 'can get away with it', researchers say

Peer review process punishes academics who ‘challenge the dogma’ of their field, scientists claim

Critics call proposal for world-first professional recognition system ‘demented’

Serious novels promote the trust and people skills that societies need. They should be required reading for all degrees, says Peter Taylor-Gooby

The work of 500 scientists transformed the 20th century. Universities and funders must do more to make certain that the flow of groundbreaking discoveries continues, says Donald Braben 

With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren Bebbington outlines a survival strategy for the increasingly unaffordable traditional university

Duke University challenge on visualising scholarly collaboration produces treasure trove of results

It's not just about papers. Running a university in Papua New Guinea has cast academic impact in a more exotic light for John Warren

THE DataPoints figures detail how country has surpassed India but still lags behind South Korea

British researchers no longer win the most grants for established scientists, having already fallen behind in early career category

V-c warns that European Court of Justice role in grant disputes makes UK association ‘difficult to see’

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Horizon 2020 could have more success getting technologies off the ground if it does not neglect the basic work that sparks breakthroughs, say Geert de Snoo, Floor Frederiks, Peter Lievens and Katrien Maes

An academic conference in the world’s northern-most human settlement was a profoundly unsettling – and enlightening – experience for Randy Malamud

Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own

Academic calls on Facebook and Twitter to share more information with scholars

Susan Michie calls for a radical upgrade in the use of social science to tackle poor public health

Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns

Transparency ‘crucial’ to the introduction of new metrics in Continent’s research system

Code of conduct frames non-publication of unexpected results as an issue of research integrity