Positioning HE and Research: Is It Time for a Rethink?
While the United Kingdom played a critical role in helping to shape global and European higher education, at a time when adherence to internationalisa...
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Economist group argues for scientific experimentation in environmental policymaking
Economist group argues for scientific experimentation in environmental policymaking
The economists say more frequent use of up-front experiments would result in more effective environmental policymaking in areas ranging from pollution control to timber harvesting across the world.
Want to Speed Up Scientific Progress? First Understand How Science Policy Works
Want to Speed Up Scientific Progress? First Understand How Science Policy Works
Researchers and policymakers often exist in different worlds and speak different languages. Here are three ways to bridge the divide.
Why Does Impact Still Feel Like an Add-on to Research Designs?
Reflecting on his role as an academic and member of a research funding organisation, Duncan Green, considers how impact has in some ways still not become embedded in research culture and is often treated a bureaucratic hurdle to overcome.
Pack Up the Parachute: Why Global North-South Collaborations Need to Change
Pack Up the Parachute: Why Global North-South Collaborations Need to Change
Global-south researchers want equal partnerships that value intellectual exchange.
Commission acts to accelerate phasing out of animal testing in response to a European Citizens' Initiative
Commission acts to accelerate phasing out of animal testing in response to a European Citizens' Initiative
The Commission is responding to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) ‘Save Cruelty-free Cosmetics - Commit to a Europe without Animal Testing'. The response provides a comprehensive overview of the EU's legislative and policy framework relevant to the use of animals for testing purposes. It also proposes additional actions to further reduce animal testing.
Citizens' Perceptions of Research and Innovation Dilemmas: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey in Four European Regions
Citizens' Perceptions of Research and Innovation Dilemmas: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey in Four European Regions
This study presents a valuable dataset supporting regional research and innovation systems in four European regions: Vestland (Norway), Kriti (Greece), Galicia (Spain), and Overijssel (Netherlands). It focuses on understanding citizens’ perceptions of research and innovation dilemmas within these regions.
'We Can't Afford to Stop Science': EU Research Infrastructures Call for Help with Their Energy Bills
'We Can't Afford to Stop Science': EU Research Infrastructures Call for Help with Their Energy Bills
A new report sets out the dramatic impact that rising costs are having on some of Europe’s critical science facilities and calls on governments and the Commission to step in.
Spanish EU Presidency to Spearhead Strategic Direction for Research and Innovation Policy
Spanish EU Presidency to Spearhead Strategic Direction for Research and Innovation Policy
Europe, closer: with that statement of intent Spain has kicked off its six-month stint leading the EU. For science this means a focus on expanding the reach of research and innovation and at the same time advancing with North Africa and Latin America.
Scientists Used ChatGPT to Generate an Entire Paper from Scratch - But Is It Any Good?
'Industry Scientists Are Often Misunderstood: Here’s Why I Chose This Path'
The Guardian View on Stem Cells and Embryos: Creating Life's Likeness in a Lab
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy: Lessons from Co-Creation in the Aid Sector
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy: Lessons from Co-Creation in the Aid Sector
There is an increasing focus in academic and policy circles on research-policy partnerships. These partnerships are often achieved through co-creation, whose role in international relations remains underdeveloped.
Human Embryo Science: Can the World's Regulators Keep Pace?
Concerned by the speed of research, policymakers are looking for alternative ways to establish rules on genome editing and other technologies.
Science is a Strong-Link Problem
There are two kinds of problems in the world: strong-link problems and weak-link problems. Science is a strong-link problem. In the long run, the best stuff is basically all that matters, and the bad stuff doesn’t matter at all.
Participatory Action Research
Participatory action research (PAR) involves the participation and leadership of people experiencing issues, who take action to produce emancipatory social change, through conducting systematic research to generate new knowledge. In this Primer, Cornish et al. set out key considerations for the design of a PAR project and discuss ways to overcome the challenges faced by PAR projects.
"If We Are Simply Creating Techies Who Can Only Work With the Technology, We're in Big Trouble."
"If We Are Simply Creating Techies Who Can Only Work With the Technology, We're in Big Trouble."
Mathematician and educator Freeman A. Hrabowski III talks about the importance of the humanities, culture change in academia, and much more. He has led groundbreaking efforts to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields throughout his career. As president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for three decades, Hrabowski transformed a regional commuter school into a top-tier research university.
Trust But Verify - U.S. Labs Are Overhauling the Nuclear Stockpile
Behind a guard shack and warning signs on the sprawling campus of Los Alamos National Laboratory is a forested spot where scientists mimic the first moments of a nuclear detonation. Here, in the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility, they blow up models of the bowling ball–size spheres of plutonium, or “pits,” at the heart of bombs—and take x-ray pictures of the results.
Verunmöglichte Forschung? Internationaler Wettbewerb Versus Transnationale Solidarität Im Wissenschafstbetrieb
Verunmöglichte Forschung? Internationaler Wettbewerb Versus Transnationale Solidarität Im Wissenschafstbetrieb
Auch die Wissenschaft ficht Arbeitskämpfe aus. In Deutschland wurde das Reformvorhaben zum Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG) zurecht von den betroffenen Wissenschaftler:innen abgelehnt. Aber statt der vorgetragenen Sorge um die "internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit" der deutschen Wissenschaft wäre transnationale Solidarität angesichts vielerorts ähnlicher neoliberaler Regierungsmechanismen gefragt.
Collaborative Advantage: Creating Global Commons for Science, Technology, and Innovation
Collaborative Advantage: Creating Global Commons for Science, Technology, and Innovation
Collectively solving problems shared by many nations requires a new global science and technology commons.
The UK Government's Road to Creating a 'science Superpower'
As the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer releases the Spring Budget, the life science industry appears to be at the heart of the country's global image in years to come.
Maximizing Researcher Contributions to Science and Policy
A recent article in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR), analyzes the factors behind a recent surge in high quality publications by Israeli researchers, which have also informed global efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic. This blog highlights two of those factors which may be particularly relevant for researchers, research institutions, and research authorities in other countries.
REF Pushes Academics to Churn out Lower Quality Research, New Study Shows
REF Pushes Academics to Churn out Lower Quality Research, New Study Shows
The UK Government’s research evaluation system encourages a higher quantity and lower quality of work from academics, according to a recent paper.
A Manifesto for Applying Behavioural Science
Behavioural science is increasingly used in the public and private sectors, but it has been subject to several criticisms. This Perspective proposes a manifesto for behavioural science, addressing these criticisms and describing a way forward for the field.
China Rolls Out ‘Radical’ Change to its Research Enterprise
Facing tighter restrictions on access to key technologies and an increasingly competitive global scientific landscape, China has launched a major shake-up of its research organizations in pursuit of “self-reliance” in science and technology.
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