Research funding

Women made only 13 per cent of applications to flagship scheme for senior research leaders, council points out

SUSTAIN programme includes year-long training programme

The UK¡¯s only national humanities research festival has announced funding awards to 41 universities and cultural organisations

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The UK needs to stop using greater efficiency in research as justification for funding cuts, a vice-chancellor and ex-research council head has said.

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Humanities scholars must use dash and pluck to win research cash

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Policy continues to worry academics despite research councils¡¯ concession

RCUK has announced it will not enforce its stated embargo periods for green open access during 바카라사이트 first five years of its new open-access policy.

Regions could be hurt by research concentration, conference told. Elizabeth Gibney reports

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Graphene discoverer takes aim at applied bias and short-term thinking. Paul Jump reports

Astrid Wissenburg helped set 바카라사이트 policies she will be bound by in her new OU role. Paul Jump writes

Council¡¯s chair ditches ¡®misleading¡¯ wording on strategic importance of research. Paul Jump writes

ESRC offers grants for ambition

Grant awards success rates rise but income falls for some research-intensives. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Senior scientists critical of allocation rules and assumptions behind ?100m grant for ¡®gold¡¯ fees, writes Paul Jump

Research councils benefit from external and internal pressures. Paul Jump reports

Survey stays intact after politicians and scientists put proposal on ice. Paul Jump writes

Research will be focused in just 25 universities by 2025 as 바카라사이트 UK sector becomes increasingly stratified, higher education experts have predicted.