Ignore the public at your peril
To avoid getting caught up in anti-establishment populism, UK science needs to pay attention to the shifts in public perception, says Jonathan Grant
To avoid getting caught up in anti-establishment populism, UK science needs to pay attention to the shifts in public perception, says Jonathan Grant
Jonathan Grant and Alexandra Pollitt look at how discrete choice modelling might be able to work out what type of impact is most valued
It is pleasing that Jonathan Grant makes such a robust defence of quality-related funding and also highlights that the research excellence framework is a relatively inexpensive way of allocating this...
We must improve the system we already have, not make a switch to metrics, argues James Wilsdon
Another review of the exercise is a chance to revise details of the costs, says Jonathan Grant
Bibliometric analysis concludes lower-quality thresholds in 2014 are more likely explanation for doubling of top-rated research
Informing government policy was the most common kind of impact submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework, a study has found
High-profile visiting professors at King’s Policy Institute include Margaret Hodge, David Willetts and Charles Clarke
David Willetts, the former universities and science minister, has been appointed as a visiting professor at King’s
The Greek research system should be overhauled to help boost economic growth, a government-commissioned review has found, as the state-reliant sector faces a squeeze in the nation's debt meltdown.
More than half of biomedical research in England is funded by the National Health Service, yet less than half of the papers published acknowledge this funding. These are findings of the first...
Key evidence that has helped persuade policy-makers to fund basic biomedical research the world over cannot be relied on, a new study has found. Analysis of work by US researchers Julius Comroe and...