Research

Just one in 10 researchers has completed an internship away from the academy, a new survey says

As the vote closes, John Morgan looks at what Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall have to say on higher education and research

Scholar says departments that did well in the research excellence framework may not have the right to ‘strut around campus’ if their field is not competitive 

Norwegian study argues ‘walking for thinking’ is exercise that all researchers can benefit from

‘We don’t need Nobel physicists running car parks. We want the scientists focused on science,’ says universities minister

10 must-dos for postdocs identified by Catherine L Drennan, professor of chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discipline may fund women fairly because of a better awareness of the ‘ingrained, institutionalized male culture of universities’

Financial boost follows better than average performance in the 2014 REF

Scholars in countries with a permissive approach are three times more likely to use the technique

Deluge of submitted papers leads journals to fall back on alma mater prestige, research suggests

Region’s universities must build a type of institution distinctive from those in the West, scholar argues

Fundraising consultant says management restructure would increase industry funding to HE

Global analysis shows hospital studies increasingly important but industry publications dip

Systematic searching and a clear focus are the keys to a successful literature review

Paul Jump examines the many reasons for irreproducibility in science and efforts to tackle it

Academy Award-winning actor visits archives and old laboratories where the famous British scientist worked

Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests

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

You can’t measure human skills the way you do engineering systems, Robert Dingwall and Mary Byrne McDonnell observe

But master of Birkbeck has accepted that there were ‘procedural matters’ in his lab that ‘required attention’

Researchers find an unexpected link between brevity and popularity

The merger of seven subpanels into a single one for modern languages and linguistics has skewed results, claim scholars

Names, addresses and sensitive information discovered in unlocked filing cabinet at University of Bedfordshire

The rise in ‘kilo-authors’ and ‘gift authorship’ is causing the academy to rethink how it assesses the worth of academic publications

Carrying out research in the field, what’s the worst that could happen?

Ellie Bothwell introduces our four ‘innovation indicators’ and reveals the strongest performers as we visualise a new ranking based on university-industry collaboration

Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations

Fears over quality decline, but many academics still unclear over open access requirements

Kingston academic Will Brooker pioneers a new kind of immersive research

China continues to advance, but Japan dips in Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking based on research strength

French research finds that undergraduates give higher scores to male teachers

Study praised founder of now defunct charity, Camila Batmanghelidjh, for ‘beauty and profound truth’ of her message

Ravi Shankar currently on unpaid leave

Director of knowledge exchange hub says that the arts and humanities can play a key role in bringing creative companies and academics together

Six academics share their experiences before delivering a verdict on the system

Crick and Watson's landmark papers on the structure of DNA would have been rejected by modern editors for lack of data, researcher argues

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

Andrew Palmer on using the thinktank approach to solve problems that conventional research could take years to answer

The ‘first women’s museum in the UK’ turned out to be dedicated to Jack the Ripper. ‘Activist academic’ Lisa Mckenzie wants scholars to protest

Deloitte has identified seven key issues facing higher education in 2015 and beyond. Here are some of the recommendations from the corporate consultancy giant

Presidential commission recommends new ministry to push technological development

The University of Surrey’s centre for testing the next generation of mobile technology has seen significant buy-in from industry

More research spending needed, says head of Brazil’s innovation agency

Report says projects fail when scholars obsessed with “shiny things” ignore business needs

Industry-led approach to doctoral education may ‘marginalise’ mentoring

Dame Julia Goodfellow, Universities UK president-elect, calls for higher education to ‘stand up and be counted’ in EU referendum debate

Glen Wright, from Academia Obscura, explores the more bizarre parts of the academic world

Budget document says the relief was never intended for higher education institutions

Will Institute of Economic Affairs report put the idea of cuts to QR funding on the political agenda? asks John Morgan

Dalmeet Singh Chawla rounds up the recent discussion about single figure publications

About 80 per cent of UCU members prepared to take industrial action over expectations on external income and other issues

Move follows controversy over comment pieces and cover page for Science

Ex-European Commission president speaks to THE for feature that also looks at the fist fight UK universities can expect in return for pro-EU campaign

Regional audits of science activity will identify areas of emerging scientific strength, says minister

Business-focused City will join the University of London next year

Leeds Beckett researchers aim to maximise the impact of their knowledge

We talk to the latest Sêr Cymru research chair

After Tory victory in the general election, an EU exit could become reality. We hear from both sides of the debate

Partnerships between institutions and wider world now worth almost £4 billion

Alison Hayman says that she is ‘not incapable’ and her treatment was ‘unjust’