Research

Study explores challenges of carrying out qualitative work

UK universities’ research links would be harmed and their ‘philosophy’ lost to Continent, John Morgan is told in Berlin and Munich

Female researchers now account for 37 per cent of first authors in medicine’s top journals, says US study

Nanyang Technological University president Bertil Andersson says Singapore has been much better at improving universities

Like the Scottish independence referendum, the uncertainty of a post-Brexit negotiation makes fact-checking very difficult

Collaboration with Europe has grown dramatically since 2000, according to analysis

Sharing knowledge and information widely is no waste of time, says Philip Moriarty

Researchers hail separatism as a way for region to escape Spanish bureaucracy 

Future research excellence framework could incorporate information on the ‘future plans of institutions’

Consultant downplays fears that leaving the EU could see overseas sources of funding dry up

Hopes that coordination across universities and better career paths can renew technician workforce

Times Higher Education hears how Wu's career encompassed filming Tiananmen protests and sending China’s first email

Despite claims that engagement with business is as important as research and teaching, academics find they have no time for work outside the academy

Universities need a new funding model, say Andrei E. Ruckenstein, Mark E. Smith and Nicola C. Owen, who want academics to take the lead in tackling the problem

As globalisation takes a firm grip on higher education, is the French government’s new strategy working?

Students asked to sniff smelly shirts bearing different university logos showed a preference for those sporting their institution’s brand

We talk to the glaciologist about how it feels to have a glacier named after him and the chances of a catastrophic sea-level rise resulting from climate change

BMJ editor in chief raises alarm over drug trial research funded and often controlled by manufacturers themselves

Being part of a 'Big Science' collaboration was challenging but exhilarating, says Martin Hendry

From the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to special needs education in the UK, more mid-career professionals are taking professional doctorates

UWE researcher says academic specialists in management need to connect far more effectively with industry

Techniques used by scientists led by Ruth Gates and backed by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen are coming under the microscope. Jon Marcus reports from Hawaii

Thailand’s institutions want to develop joint degrees with the UK, but hurdles remain in visa red tape and political instability

New models of scientific discovery eschew the principle of basic research first, says Ben Shneiderman

Drug company hopes to provide a new home for studies that try to replicate previous experimental results

Two famous experiments have reached the silver screen. Antonio Melechi on the relationship between the academic discipline and Hollywood

Times Higher Education's poll shows that the bulk of staff find their work rewarding but there is a deep gulf between academics and professional and support staff

A focus on basic cell biology and statistical population health studies means that understanding how living systems operate has been neglected, they claim

The three institutions aim to tackle sustainability and educational attainment in new partnership

Subra Suresh fears that business short-termism, increasing research costs and worries over cybersecurity are undermining the incentives to invest

Matthew Reisz meets the researcher challenging universities on their tendency to try and fit square pegs into round holes

Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals’ impact factors

The world is impatient for the academy’s social benefits, writes Lisa Anderson, but its core mission remains a slow-flowering one

Institutions from eight countries feature in a snapshot university ranking for the region

Center for Open Science hopes initiative will make results more reproducible

Committee of MPs hears that effort to conduct vaccine and treatment trials during outbreak in West Africa was ‘uncoordinated’

Neil Reid is fulfilling a childhood dream and working in a cloud forest in Honduras, where the natural wonders and the need to defend them can push the region’s dangers out of mind

We must improve the system we already have, not make a switch to metrics, argues James Wilsdon

Critics fear proposals for high-level body could risk politicising scientific decisions.

Warning comes after stories about Coca-Cola’s spending on science hit the headlines last year

Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance

Glen Wright rounds up the best amusing, passive-aggressive and romantic acknowledgements in the scholarly world

Scholars say they feel overwhelmed by demands, but there is scandalously little evidence on whether long hours make any sense for knowledge workers, finds David Matthews

We talk to the research council CEO about pharmaceutical drugs modelling and a childhood interest in studying animal remains

International Policing and Justice Institute integrates practical police training into an academic context

Astronomer comes with experience of running winery and pitches salary so he is not seen as ‘outsider’ by staff

Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative billed as a ‘grassroots’ response to concerns over reproducibility

Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies

Plos Biology launches new section looking at how experiments are run and incentive systems for scientists

Awareness of why some people make extensive use of management research at work can help researchers plan their dissemination strategies

We need to wake up and defend this vital practice, not sleepwalk to an unhappy ending, says Lars Fischer

Another review of the exercise is a chance to revise details of the costs, says Jonathan Grant

Science suffered restrictions and reductions in funding under the previous government. Will the Trudeau administration put it back on track? Ellie Bothwell investigates

Using the language of sport to sell metrics-based performance management ignores what sport can really teach academia, argues linguistics scholar Liz Morrish

Jenny McDonald examines the response to calls for academics who are not highly productive researchers to be given more recognition 

The former university rector has been praised as one of the country’s most effective politicians for driving his ambitious reform programme forward

Narrow science base could hurt ability to meet new challenges, report says

City University London vice-chancellor among academics recognised

Institution’s US Centre seeks to promote multidisciplinary and international research on American policy