Research funding

Agreement that EU research funding should continue to be distributed according to quality is an important step forward, writes Jan Palmowski

Government affirms Medical Research Future Fund but raids dormant infrastructure kitty

Country wins biggest share of advanced grants, but could soon lose access to fund

Post-Brexit UK grants scheme would find it ‘almost impossible’ to match European Research Council’s international competition and quality, former European Commission research head warns

University said to have known of problems with lab technician’s faked data for several years

Average success rate for European Commission programme stands at 12 per cent

Lack of detail, not due process, is at the heart of concerns about medical research handouts in Australia, writes John Ross 

Call for more transparency over disbursement of Australia’s A$20 billion (£10.7 billion) Medical Research Future Fund

Cash flows are not moving fast enough to keep pace with technology, malaria expert cautions

Europe-wide temperature check of university-business interactions unearths concerns over loss of curiosity-led research 

Universities’ vocal opposition to government plans for vastly increased international fees has yielded only minor concessions, says Juliette Torabian 

Conference hears that nationalist politics could hamper efforts to tackle pandemics

Academics highlight brain drain of researchers and loss of international research partners as concerns in wake of latest government ‘attack on autonomy’

Large research groups may be less flexible and more risk-averse, study suggests

New £5.7 million institute at the Technical University of Munich triggers ‘ethics washing’ debate

Seeking special status will further antagonise non-members faced with curtailed access to EU research funding, says Jan Palmowski

MIT expresses ‘deep sense of revulsion’ over Khashoggi killing but won’t override faculty choice of partners

Plan needed as UK and EU ‘may not get back into detail’ on association until November, warns science minister Chris Skidmore

Research council says that ‘careful thought’ should be given to potential Horizon 2020 collaborations

Britain again edges ahead of Germany in EU research funding race despite Brexit concerns

Restrictions on use of federal money predicted to widen

Study’s authors suggest women are better able to communicate the value of science to score public donations

Federal funding has slowed to a trickle over the past two decades

Don’t fixate on funding cuts and market challenges, UK-born star scientist Michelle Simmons tells Australian peers

University spokesman says decision also covers donations but does not affect ongoing partnerships

UK ‘would still like to explore option’ of association but talks cannot begin until April at the earliest, says new universities minister

Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding

Universities should use federal budget boost to help companies keep innovating, not to do it themselves, top science policy expert says

Leading figures in UK higher education warn sector will ‘take decades to recover’ from no-deal Brexit

Government increases funding for project grants but cuts cash for associated costs

Academics claim that loopholes in government index of top scholars raise questions over allocation of public money

PhD scholarships in the sights as cutbacks more than double analysts’ expectations

Universities beg government to cancel cut planned for mini-budget

Andrew Thompson warns suitable plug for UK research funding gaps post-Brexit could take years to deliver

Move by party tipped to form next government triggers speculation over creation of teaching-only universities

Both the rationale and the mechanism for redistributing research activity around the regions are far from clear cut, say Sarah Chaytor and Graeme Reid   

UUK International director also tells peers that ‘period of discontinuity’ in funding is a ‘real worry’

Sharing every stage of scholarship on Octopus platform will allow funders to offer smaller, more regular grants, according to founder

Key committee agrees that associate members of Horizon Europe ‘may be excluded’ from prestigious funding scheme

Scholar loses confidence in application process after her previously approved project fails research council review

Reduce applicants’ workload and review funding for indirect research costs, Australian MPs tell government

Task force affirms support for green open access and says that poorer researchers should not miss out

Analysis of impact of doctoral training centres funded by Economic and Social Research Council prompts further questions over approach to postgraduate learning

Oxford’s Dorothy Bishop says spread of funding would be largely unchanged

Fewer than half of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Centres for Doctoral Training rated ‘good’

‘Aspiration is not enough’, says Sir Paul Nurse of goal to spend 2.4 per cent of GDP on R&D

Overwhelming majority of survey respondents say lack of money has held back their career

Australian institution ‘playing into government’s hands’ by bankrolling stymied project

Minister’s intervention self-defeating, representative body claims

Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding ‘excellence’ is hampering new research, says Dutch institute

Imperial and UCL secure far more grants by value as Oxford slips back

Rising value of grants suggests that winning funding is likely to remain highly competitive

Opposition urges jilted researchers to try again

Researchers face a lean Christmas as veto fiasco triggers more delays

Australian universities may have to wait months to find out how much funding they will forfeit

Sir John Kingman hints that research councils could withhold funding in cases where universities do not address unfair treatment of staff

Toronto historian warns academics against shying away from the complexities of the past

Response to row over vetoing of humanities grants could result in curiosity-driven scholarship being pushed out

Latest tweaks to Australian research grant rules will just add to paperwork, critics say

Education minister refuses to rule out future interventions in grant awarding process