Research England blog
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- 27 April 2018
- Nurturing 'islands' of excellence in a developing UK research landscape
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We invited Professor Sir Ian Diamond, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and chair of the Expanding Excellence in England (E3) assessment panel, to share his thoughts on developments in the UK’s research landscape and the potential for Research England’s first new funding scheme
- By Ian Diamond
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- 14 June 2018
- REFlecting on progress towards open access
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A report published today shows that the UK is making huge strides towards open access. Over eighty percent of outputs that are within scope of the REF OA policy are meeting the policy requirements.
- By Helen Snaith, Claire Fraser
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- 05 July 2018
- Underpinning research excellence: a case for capital funded projects
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Senior Policy Advisor at Research England, Helen Snaith, assesses the impact of the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund over the last six years and looks at how the scheme will continue to have impact.
- By Helen Snaith
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- 27 July 2018
- Open access and monographs
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In December 2016, the four UK higher education (HE) funding bodies signalled their intent to extend the open access (OA) requirements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) to include long-form scholarly works and monographs in the exercise after REF 2021.
- By Helen Snaith
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- 14 June 2018
- REFlecting on progress towards open access
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A report published today shows that the UK is making huge strides towards open access. Over eighty percent of outputs that are within scope of the REF OA policy are meeting the policy requirements.
- By Helen Snaith, Claire Fraser
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- 14 June 2018
- The institutions have spoken
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Today, Research England released the results of a survey they ran in August last year in conjunction with the former RCUK, Wellcome and Jisc. Cambridge University was one of the 113 institutions that answered a significant number of questions about how we were managing compliance with various open access policies.
- By Danny Kingsley
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- 05 July 2018
- Collaborative research efforts can keep the UK at the cutting edge of the rail sector
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Siemens’ Head of Innovation, Jo Binstead, looks at how collaboration between industry and academia can help the UK remain a world-leader in rail.
- By Jo Binstead
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- 05 July 2018
- Fighting cancer's drug resistance with an evolutionary approach to research
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Dr Sam Dick of the Cancer Research Institute, London, talks about how a £30m grant from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund will go towards constructing a new multidisciplinary Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery.
- By Dr Sam Dick
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- 06 July 2018
- How the Maxwell Centre is bringing together the full spectrum of science and engineering in west Cambridge
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Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Director, Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge explains how funding from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund has helped create new activities in science and engineering in Cambridge.
- By Professor Sir Richard Friend
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- 31 August 2018
- Research England – Staff circumstances and submissions to REF 2021
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Draft guidance on making submissions to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), published in July 2018, proposes how researchers’ personal circumstances should be accounted for when making submissions for the next REF.
- By Dianne Berry, Kim Hackett