AHRC grants help scholars and firms to serve up archives
Food, feminism and assumptions about asylum seekers among areas explored in eight AHRC-backed projects

Food, feminism and assumptions about asylum seekers among areas explored in eight AHRC-backed projects

Long hours, job insecurity and need for mentoring noted in global survey of young scientists

Paul Gibbons says lack of time, money and legal clarity can all affect universities’ responses to FoI Act requests

Quality of papers rises in units led by strong researchers, study claims

A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson

Economic and Social Research Council chief executive Paul Boyle has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester

A former psychiatric nurse who is now a lecturer in creative writing has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year award for his debut novel.

Scotland’s universities are being damaged by a Westminster immigration policy that is “driven by Ukip and a nasty xenophobia”

Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow

University staff have taken part in a second two-hour strike over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

The budget for universities in Scotland will remain almost exactly the same in cash terms in 2014-15, the Scottish Funding Council has confirmed

The number of Americans taking full undergraduate degrees in the UK has risen by almost 30 per cent in the last four years, new figures show

A Catholic college has become the UK’s newest university

Harvard comes top in the FT’s Global MBA Ranking 2014

By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed