All research councils articles
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NewsRed tape report recommends simple, quick two-stage grant application process
Review by Birmingham vice-chancellor Adam Tickell calls for UK government, funders and universities to cut duplication and improve coordination
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NewsPhysical sciences funder wants UK women to go for bigger grants
Just five applications for grants over £10 million received from women since 2007
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NewsPlant biologist Ottoline Leyser to head UK’s leading funding body
Leyser will guide government’s plan to increase spending on science to 2.4% of GDP by 2027
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NewsQueen’s speech reveals new research agency planned for UK
Government plans transformative research body based on US’s Arpa to deliver new technologies
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NewsHead of UK’s overarching research body to step down
Mark Walport, who led the creation of UK Research and Innvoation, will retire in 2020
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NewsAustralian basic research squeezed as R&D to fall to lowest level for decades
Researchers call for end of benign neglect for science as funding predicted to fall to 40-year low
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NewsUK government announces funding plans for PhD training centres
The number of CDTs funded in the UK will decrease from 115 to 75
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CareersFive ways to secure research funding
How to find your financial feet as an independent researcher
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NewsCall for quicker progress on research integrity at UK universities
House of Commons investigation finds a quarter of universities still don’t publish an annual integrity report
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News£20 million for NMR upgrade at eight UK universities
Funding boost includes cash for two ultra-powerful 1GHz machines
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NewsNew executive chair for UK physical sciences research council
University of Cambridge professor to succeed Philip Nelson at the helm of the country’s main chemistry funder
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NewsScientific trade union expands to cover all UKRI employees
Staff at all seven of the UK’s research councils are now represented by Prospect
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NewsUK research councils sign responsible research assessment pledge
Funders will discourage the use of impact factors and other journal metrics to judge research
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NewsEPSRC chief executive will stay on for another six months
Philip Nelson will remain head of UK physical sciences agency as research councils merge to form UKRI
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NewsEPSRC funds third of research proposals over past year
In 2016–2017 34% of proposals were granted funding worth £533 million
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NewsWhat you need to know about the UK higher education shake-up
How will students, academics and universities be affected?
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NewsHigher education reforms rushed through
Bill passed before parliament’s dissolution will bring seismic changes to UK research landscape
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NewsMark Walport named as new head of UKRI
Chief scientific adviser will lead UK’s new research organisation
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NewsIntegrity rules ‘well received’ by researchers
Progress report on concordat on research ethics broadly supportive of actions taken so far
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NewsLords call for re-think on Innovate UK merger
Warning that industry funder would lose its business focus if placed within body overseeing research councils