Research

Benefits of proposals for reducing the tax costs of sharing university equipment outweighed by legal and financial hurdles, according to N8 research group

Concerns that Lord Stern’s proposals for REF 2020 will adversely affect ECRs are misplaced, argues Dame Athene Donald

New report indicates that more doesn’t always mean more equal

Chair of independent review of research excellence framework also hopes to tackle 'game-playing'

Investing more in research ‘must be central to our nation’s strategy’, writes Lord Stern on the day his review of the REF is published

Lord Stern's review of the research excellence framework was published today. This is how UK higher education is responding...

New concordat should help researchers ‘deliver significant benefits for society’

Landmark review of the research excellence framework also recommends that university where research is done should be able to reap rewards

The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society

The grouping of subjects such as neuroscience and psychiatry with cheaper disciplines will lead to what critics say is a failure to fairly fund mental health research

Six months after the PhD student’s murder in Egypt, John Elmes looks at the case and talks to those who were close to the promising young scholar

Do universities need to rethink what they do and how they do it now that artificial intelligence is beginning to take over graduate-level roles?

Idea is mooted at EuroScience Open Forum but event is also warned that privileging researchers could be seen as ‘elitist’

Researchers have used an art competition to model what happens during peer review, and their work raises further questions over its effectiveness

Presidents' associations issue statement in wake of Brexit vote

Debate about research on animals fails to tackle all the issues, says Gail Davies

Academics explore how the seemingly sedate game of housey-housey has attracted many different kinds of government intervention

Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago

Social science scholars are attempting to produce ‘impossible results’ due to demands from journal editors, finds study

Recent attempts to get round US gun lobby’s blocking of federal funds for gun violence research could be making an impact. Jon Marcus reports

Liverpool’s Michael Dougan on ‘poisonous’ anti-expert rhetoric and the UK’s EEA deal chances

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Many more of the general public should help to plot the course of research, argue Christiaan De Beukelaer and Jan Baetens

The Home Office has also released data showing experiments on animals across the country have broadly flatlined since 2013

Unlike the rest of the EU budget, research funding disproportionately flows to rich members. But there are pressures for this to change

Lord Stern's warning adds to concerns about a brain drain from British universities in the wake of the referendum result

Some believe the momentous referendum result may harm the UK’s ability to compete for the world’s best PhD students

Shift may be evidence that researchers feel they are increasingly judged on citations and journal impact factors

Concerns raised over splitting research and universities, while Theresa May’s focus on ‘industrial strategy’ prompts questions

Thinktank advises universities to take advantage of UK’s ‘instability’ after EU referendum

Research league calls for funding decision makers to see UK partners as desirable

We talk with the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Award winner about impactful research, encouraging young women into science and how engineering is not just about an oily rag and a spanner

Randy Malamud examines the fascination in a fringe academic topic

Campus collections have found new audiences and roles, but they still face significant questions, says Nicholas Thomas

For those aspiring to an academic career, a PhD is the entry ticket to a world where reputation is all, says Robert MacIntosh. Here are his 10 top tips for early career researchers

Times Higher Education’s debut event on universities’ innovation and impact will be held in partnership with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Minister invites researchers to send ‘concrete’ examples that UK academics are being stopped from bidding for EU grants 

Government and universities must find ways to remove obstacles to cross-cutting research, says report

Iranian-Canadian Homa Hoodfar, who has conducted research on Islamic family law and Muslim dress codes, was imprisoned last month

Senior academic from the university embroiled in the ‘Climategate’ scandal warns how open data can be used irresponsibly to damage science

Secretary general of the Guild of European Research Intensive Universities says shortfalls of Horizon 2020 must be addressed

Hundreds of students at Europe’s largest postgraduate dental school may have been awarded the wrong marks thanks to form-filling blunders

We need quick agreements to mitigate the damage that UK exit will have on the European academy, argues Bernd Huber

Researchers in the liberal arts seem to have made it their mission to communicate in the most obscure fashion, says Zachary Foster

UK alone could not match ERC prestige, senior Swiss research figure tells MPs

Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust will be able to publish their findings ahead of peer review on a new digital platform from this autumn

Steven Vaughan has been experimenting with a new way of writing, and despite the odd bit of cheating, it’s going very well

Survey also finds cases of foreign scientists opting against taking up UK jobs

The leader of the German Rectors’ Conference questions ‘how easy it would be’ for academics to work across borders after the UK leaves the EU

But research leaders in the UK say their European counterparts are already freezing them out when it comes to applying for EU money

Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small

A review at the University of Nottingham found many doctoral students were unsure where to turn for help

Iain Gillespie, former research and innovation director at Nerc, explains why the University of Leicester is setting up four new institutes

Academy of Social Sciences joins former Royal Society president in raising questions about UK Research and Innovation

A survey suggests research misconduct in the UK is higher than previously feared. Joanna Williams and five other academics ponder the results

Brexit vote leads some European researchers to conclude joint bids with UK academics are now too risky

Jisc/RLUK study charts sector’s shift towards making research freely available online

But rector of Denmark’s top university rejected the exercise owing to ‘workload and expense’

Leave vote triggers warnings of recruitment problems and of UK academics seeking better opportunities elsewhere

Shanghai Jiao Tong University a model of how China’s universities can transform and put innovation first, says president