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ViewUlster to lead £50m data innovation hub for manufacturers

The hub will support businesses in developing, testing and adopting data-driven technologies

ViewGive all prisoners access to student loans, say MPs

Education committee report highlights problems with UK prison education

ViewUK universities perform well on entrepreneurial funding

But Research England report says UK entrepreneurial ecosystems can still learn from European equivalents

ViewRoyal Holloway appoints next principal

Julie Sanders to take over from Paul Layzell this autumn

ViewREF 2021: Computer science and informatics top 10

Top positions taken by the big beasts while Essex outperforms its overall league ranking

ViewREF 2021: Engineering top 10

Major research universities dominate the topic that attracted the highest number of submissions

ViewNicola Dandridge to join University of Bristol

Former OfS chief to take role as higher education professor this autumn

ViewREF 2021: A fairytale ending for impact?

Results highlight progress in linking research to society—but it’s not happy-ever-after yet, says Saskia Walcott

ViewREF 2021: Rules give more to those that have most

Environment and impact assessments need reform to remove disadvantages for smaller institutions, says Cathal Rogers

ViewWhy co-investigators count

The ins and outs of an unsung role in research

ViewNERC sets new standard

Council launches next generation of responsive-mode schemes

ViewWhat’s going on in the UK: 5-18 May

This week: the Queen’s speech, gene editing, UKRI culture change and more

ViewREF 2021: Results day

Seven years of work pay off—the Research Excellence Framework 2021 results are finally published

ViewThe big question

With the REF results in, was it all worth the effort?

ViewThe third degree

Back page gossip from the 18 May issue of Research Fortnight

ViewHer Majesty’s pleasure

Is the teaching of higher education in prisons criminally under-resourced?

ViewREF 2021: Clinical medicine top 10

The usual suspects dominate the top of the table for REF results in clinical medicine

ViewDigital collection of history of science to launch

Jisc says new archive brings together nearly one million pages and is “dramatically” more accessible

ViewREF 2021: Allied health professions, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy top 10

Many leading universities missing as smaller universities show their strength

ViewTwo more UK universities join European University Association

Essex and Aston join nearly 50 other UK universities as group’s members

ViewResearch Professional News shortlisted for four BSME awards

Publication makes the cut for British Society of Magazine Editors’ 2022 Talent Awards

View‘Miracle’ needed for UK to join Horizon, ERC president suggests

Maria Leptin also says funder’s letter to UK winners of ERC grants “was misunderstood”

ViewDfE: Make ‘ambitious bids’ for £450m capital funding

Funding will go towards improvement projects for subjects supported by ministers

ViewUKRI had told Researchfish its tweets ‘set the correct tone’

Funder also told service “we got the result we needed” after academic deleted their tweet

ViewThe latest Research Fortnight flipbook

News, opinion, funding insight, and more in the latest issue of Research Fortnight

ViewMore care-experienced students in Scottish universities

SFC report shows increase in retention rate for care-experienced undergraduates

ViewBill of frights

What will be in the government’s planned higher education reform act?

ViewHere’s how public sector R&D can fulfil its potential

Report shows government labs can be a secret superpower, say Joe Kiely and Daniel Rathbone

ViewNUS ‘disappointed’ after DfE cuts ties over antisemitism claims

Government “disengaging” with the student union amid growing concerns about alleged antisemitism

ViewAcademics complain of ongoing accentism at UK universities

Researchers “sick of the constant abuse” they experience because of the way they talk