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Category Archives: Research funding
May 20 2013
Investing in higher education, including the social sciences, would promote growth in Britain
2 CommentsPaul Whiteley points out that there is no evidence that supports the argument that STEM subjects provide an additional boost to growth on top of investments in universities in general. Despite higher than average enrolment in sciences, for instance, Britain has lower … Continue reading
Posted by: May 20, 2013
Tagged with: OECD, research investment
Feb 14 2013
The research impact agenda must translate measurement into learning
3 CommentsFunders and the wider research community must avoid the temptation to reduce impact to just things that can be measured, says Liz Allen of the Wellcome Trust. Measurement should not be for measuring’s sake; it must be about contributing to learning. Qualitative descriptors of progress … Continue reading
Posted by: February 14, 2013
Nov 15 2012
Sociology under threat: How the green light for attacks on Russian social scientists has been given
Comments OffIn July, the Russian government passed a law forcing foreign funded NGOs to register as “foreign agents”. Elena Omelchenko and Anna Zhelnina write that this law is part of a trend for Russian authorities to attack social scientists that collaborate … Continue reading
Posted by: November 15, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, Research funding
Oct 31 2012
ESRC success rates by discipline: what on earth is going on?
2 CommentsIt’s long been known that some academic subjects do better than others under the ESRC’s open call Research Grants scheme, but Adam Golberg argues that the latest figures show spectacular differences in success rates between different academic disciplines, and wonders … Continue reading
Posted by: October 31, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Research funding
Sep 20 2012
Can theories of change help researchers (or their funders) have more impact?
2 CommentsCharities and NGOs are primary users of academic research, playing a significant role in the social impact of research. Duncan Green, Senior Strategic Advisor for Oxfam GB, suggests that researchers and their funders look to the outcome-oriented framework popular among development organisations … Continue reading
Posted by: September 20, 2012
Tagged with: civil society, impact, policy-making, Research Excellence Framework
Sep 18 2012
Cash alone will not cure the research market
3 CommentsOpen access developments have necessarily elicited response from the entire scholarly community. Here, David Prosser of Research Libraries UK clarifies the valued role of libraries in informing the debate and raises specific concerns over how the newly pledged £10 million … Continue reading
Posted by: September 18, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, open access, Research funding
Sep 12 2012
Key Questions for Open Access Policy in the UK
2 CommentsWhile recent policy developments have made huge strides for open access publishing, there is still great uncertainty over how the transition will play out. Stephen Curry distills the key questions that have emerged over translating open access policy into practice. … Continue reading
Posted by: September 12, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, open access, Research Councils UK
Jul 30 2012
REF is leading to sleepless nights over a decrease in time and opportunities to conduct research
Comments OffConcerned, worried and struggling to cope with pressurised work conditions, academics speak of the effects of the impact agenda and a tight concentration of research funding to Carole Leathwood and Barbara Read as they try to make an impact with … Continue reading
Posted by: July 30, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, academic work, impact, public engagement
Jun 20 2012
An administrative blight is destined to spread throughout universities if academics don’t learn how to resist
Comments OffThe structure of universities in the UK, US and Canada have altered dramatically in recent years with numbers of administrative and support personnel rising rapidly by up to 300 per cent in some institutions. Benjamin Ginsberg warns that academic priorities … Continue reading
Posted by: June 20, 2012
Tagged with: academics, Business, impact, Research funding
Jun 14 2012
The UK’s 30 year experiment in innovation policy is crumbling: Universities can no longer be responsible for all of society’s R&D
2 CommentsThe UK fares very well in international comparisons of the research and development intensity of the higher education sector, with 26 per cent of this research taking place in universities. However, Richard Jones fears that universities soon won’t be able … Continue reading
Posted by: June 14, 2012
Tagged with: government, impact, Knowledge transfer, Research funding
