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ViewSix things they might not tell you about grant writing

Including why you shouldn’t let low success rates get you down

ViewMegatrends are reshaping society, but geographical context matters

Universities can help regions confront societal shifts, say Matthew Lyons, Anne Green and Charlotte Hoole

ViewOpportunity profile: Be reasonable to win policing grant

Pointers for final edition of the Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre’s early career scheme

ViewUniversities face ‘difficult balance’ after Supreme Court gender ruling

Institutions grapple with concerns over how to navigate legal course through contested territory

ViewTick, tock…gloom

The Department for Education’s big plan for higher education funding is yet to appear

ViewUK funding at a glance: 4-17 July

This week: BBSRC changes, a £40 million Innovate UK call, Leverhulme visiting professorships and more

ViewMinisters need to avoid an 80s revival act in university funding

This academic year threatens to be one that changes the future for academics

ViewUK push for global talent must not forget research culture

New funding schemes will help, but day-to-day job satisfaction matters most, says Yolana Pringle

ViewSix months of Trump: six ways the research world has changed

The administration has slashed federal science budgets, pulled grant funding and pressured universities

ViewHorizon Europe plan brings fresh scrutiny of competitiveness link

Sector leaders cheer €175 billion allocation but question how it will be spent and governed

ViewEconomic model for open access branded ‘fundamentally broken’

Negotiator on university publishing deals says agreements viewed as “neither sustainable nor fit for purpose”

ViewVague rules will not dispel the REF’s climate of caution

Inclusive assessment needs stronger backing, say Gemma Derrick, Elizabeth Gadd, Simon Hettrick and James Baker

ViewWhat’s going on in the UK: 25 June to 9 July

This week: Aria exit, AI honesty, FDI falls and more

ViewBasic research ‘harder to protect’ in tight times, says BBSRC chief

Anne Ferguson-Smith stresses need to safeguard curiosity-driven research, as research council outlines refreshed vision

ViewMetascience’s challenge is to keep its big tent intact

Surging interest in discipline is fuelling breakthroughs and tensions, say Stephen Curry and James Wilsdon

ViewTeaming up for internal research funding

The benefits and challenges of running an internal funding scheme across four universities

ViewWhy do our tech firms struggle to thrive in the UK?

Lack of capital, poor infrastructure and talent barriers see British companies struggle to scale up

ViewResearch leaders’ deficit fixes are a 1980s tribute act

Government’s priorities cast old debates about concentrating resources in a new light, says Kieron Flanagan

ViewThe value of lived experience in biomedical research

The Medical Research Council opens up about public partnerships

ViewEconomic and security pressures create ‘new world’ for UK research

As the government shapes a different stance on R&D, cool heads are required

ViewEvent hopping

Metascience 2025 deafens with science while UUK aims to take control of the narrative

ViewUK funding at a glance: 20 June to 3 July

This week: dip in overseas R&D investment, and calls from UK Space Agency and AHRC

ViewFocus on national security ‘will bring chilling effect’ to UK research

UKRI-funded report finds “sensitive economic areas” leak most knowledge, but crackdown could affect open science

ViewAlan Turing Institute told to focus on defence or lose funding

Science secretary threatens to pull defence R&D funds, while reforms could see EPSRC grant revisited

ViewLabour one year on: stability for R&D, uncertainty for universities

Experts welcome steady hand for research but warn universities need urgent clarity from government

ViewEU budget ‘must provide ambition and clarity’ for Horizon and Erasmus+

Academia awaits plan for 2028-34 funding period with combination of hope and trepidation

ViewThe UK needs many industrial strategies

Smarter growth begins with understanding value chains in innovation, say Daniel Rathbone and Eleanor Hopkins

View‘Appetite on both sides’ for UK-US deal on advanced technologies

Science department tells RPN talks have started in the wake of recent trade deal

ViewUK’s £54m Global Talent Fund offered to pre-selected institutions

Move ahead of fund’s announcement raises concern about UKRI money “becoming politicised”

ViewWhat’s going on in the UK: 11-25 June

This week: Aria inequity, Dundee departure, big ERC win and more