Research

Academics still hidebound by national rules, Commission finds

Earthquake experts must communicate public risk more effectively to avoid a repetition of the Italian media fiasco that a year ago culminated in jail terms for the academics involved

Academics will join a host of well-known names for a festival this weekend encouraging each of us to cast our “mind forward 25 years to the 2030s”.

Template for Orwell’s nightmare the subject of major AHRC-backed study

Universities urged to adopt Arrive guidelines

Critics of The Satanic Verses lost the battle but are winning the war, warns Dennis Hayes

THE investigation reveals 63 per cent increase in 0.2 deals since October 2011

A career in science is built on hope and naviety as well as intellect, argues Russell Foster

Matthew Reisz talks to academics who have devoted their lives to studying the Bard

Barts Pathology Museum prepares the specimens for autumn lectures

Lecturer says profession should widen its global outlook

‘Stable’ figures raise question: where has the money gone?

Blog calls for state to give scholars opportunity to influence policy

A weighted approach is the best bet for assessment, say Andrew Oswald and Daniel Sgroi

A current lack of transparency in clinical trials is “unacceptable”, a cross-party group of MPs has said

A leading sociologist has attacked the application of so-called “‘evidence’-based policy” – and much of the research lying behind it – to education

Involving patients in research programmes increases the likelihood of recruiting a target number of people, a study has found.

Cows may have an unfortunate reputation for being slothful, but even long hours on their pins do not increase the likelihood of them lying down.

US academics are more likely to work with peers outside the US than European researchers are to link up with those outside Europe, a new study says.

Committee points to ‘gaps in qualitative and quantitative evidence’ for Finch report recommendations

Fewer than half of those new to research can expect long-term academic careers

Humanities and social sciences in Australia could lose A$100 million (£60 million) in funding following a change in government, it is feared. 

The Academy of Social Sciences has bestowed more than 50 new Academician awards on to leading social scientists

Washington’s ‘national interest’ restrictions on social science will affect bilateral projects

Felipe Fernández-Armesto on two undergraduates’ stairways to heaven (via Cincinnati)

Staff complain over ‘arbitrary’ yardstick and teaching-only threat

FoI request shows huge variations within RCUK over the extent of sanctions

Moving to a different sphere of study can be a fruitful - and liberating - experience

Plans by the University of London to sell a rare set of early printed editions of Shakespeare’s plays have been branded “egregiously wrong”.

A university has asked for a journal paper to be retracted after an investigation found no evidence that the study it described had been carried out.

A fifth regional alliance of research universities has been announced by three institutions in the east of England.

Allan Johnson on the misunderstood B-sides of conference presentations

Teesside’s Centre for Realist Criminology to probe stories behind the statistics

Funds to be available quickly for research into rare, unfolding events

Independence enables biomedical laboratory to offer stability and freedom to researchers

Organometallics and University of Western Australia are reviewing article containing instruction to ‘make up’ data

Advantages to making research freely available are still limited when publication is via gold journals

Too many adjectives and adverbs spoil academic broth, scholar argues

Methodological controversy and a “publish or perish” culture explain why papers from US behavioural studies are more likely to exaggerate findings.

Penguins seldom come to Britain, it is said, because they are afraid of Wales.

Students, young academics, professionals and entrepreneurs are being encouraged to present fixes to some of the world’s most pressing challenges - in three minutes.

It is not often that academics are mentioned in the same breath as Angelina Jolie and George Clooney for their humanitarian work, but for one University of Ulster academic, this unlikely scenario has become a reality.

Half of scientific papers published in 2011 can be accessed online for free, a new study has suggested. 

In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes.

Smart thinking on efficiencies funnels cash to research

Allowing scientists to profit from their research would encourage entrepreneurship, says Institute of Cancer Research chairman Luke Johnson

Data show how much work conservation biologists do outside office hours

Wyn Ellis, who made a plagiarism claim against an official, has received menacing calls

Work between the UK research councils, Indian government and business can be improved by fixing practical barriers to collaboration, a report says.

Joshua Oppenheimer’s film about the perpetrators of Indonesian genocide has impact in spades, says Sally Feldman

UEL body plans research into attainment and staffing gap

Students should not be turned into consumers, sector expert Jürgen Enders tells David Matthews

Academy risks research future by failing to give credit where it’s due

Dean of medical school who was cleared of misconduct quits after restructure

The University of Bristol has launched an online forum, Public Spirit, to foster debate on the many key areas where faith impacts on public policy.

Rick Rylance has been reappointed chief executive and deputy chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a further four years.

Lecturer whips the average into shape for gruelling Barcelona triathlon

But scholars question motives behind restriction of project studentships

Female academics aim to boost women’s interest in computer science

University denies reneging on promise not to penalise staff over issue