A new institute will explore the origin and evolution of the Universe. The Institute for Origins at University College London is to recruit four research fellows and two PhD students, funded with £...
A £1 million centre which aims to help companies use design in order to gain a competitive edge over rivals will be based at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. The Centre for Design and...
"All-Steinway Schools" such as Yale University's School of Music and the Juilliard School in New York are being joined by the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the first UK conservatoire to...
A £5 million research facility to lead the fight against superbugs is being set up at the University of St Andrews. The Wellcome Trust is funding the centre as part of the university's biomedical...
The use of hydrogen as a renewable fuel source could be coming closer with the launch of a £2.2 million hydrogen energy research and demonstration centre at the University of Glamorgan. The centre,...
The treatment of incarcerated women and children will be among the issues studied at the new Centre for Prison Studies at the University of Salford. The first of its kind outside London, the centre...
A Queen's University Belfast project seeks to realise female leadership potential, writes Olga Wojtas
Foxhill House, on the University of Reading's main Whiteknights campus, was built by the architect Alfred Waterhouse - who also designed London's Natural History Museum - on his father's property in...
Concerns voiced as Hefce looks set to agree £8m funds for Middlesex project, writes Melanie Newman
The case of the missing PhD student is emerging as one of the more perplexing problems in British science, going by the discussion this week at the Royal Society on funding research. According to...
New mediaAcademics get 'media savvy'A programme to help academics struggling to create internet podcasts has been developed by researchers at the University of Portsmouth. The programme, "6Ps in a...
Think-tank report on UK's 'mental capital' could open up new research areas. Zoe Corbyn reports
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHThe NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme researches the broader impacts of healthcare treatments provided by the National Health Service. Seven...
Jeff Yan and a colleague at Newcastle have developed a tool to help web companies beat the spammers
Anne Neville of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds has been awarded a ten-year research chair in emerging technologies - the first of its kind to be given by the Royal...