Imperial College London’s new £1bn campus
West London development will provide facilities for research, translation and commercialisation, explains Sir Keith O’Nions, Imperial president

West London development will provide facilities for research, translation and commercialisation, explains Sir Keith O’Nions, Imperial president

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Artistic practice can certainly be research - but the present model in UK universities is confused and lacks intellectual rigour, argues Nicholas Till

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Private and state cash feed research giant’s £1bn new campus in W12. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Artistic practice may count as research within the academy but it must be treated carefully if innovation is not to be stifled

Comparisons drawn between access plans and scrapped outreach scheme. Jack Grove reports