Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Plagiarism and academic integrity
I first thought of doing a piece on stealing intellectual property when I started noticing my words being used without credit in […]
“UK social science is the best in the world”, says leading academic
“UK social science is the best in the world,” said Professor Michael Harloe of the Campaign for Social Science. Speaking to a […]
Who benefits from benefits?
This was the question posed at the most recent ‘Myths and Realities’ debate hosted this week in London by the British Library […]
Understanding why refugees in London work in the ‘informal economy’
A new report by Community Links and the Refugee Council examines the causes of informal economic activity within refugee communities in London […]
“Don’t look to the Ivy League”
In an essay published in the London Review of Books, Howard Hotson analyses the THE-QS World University Rankings and concludes that market […]
Happiness and productivity at work
Last week I chaired the Business in the Community WorkWell Summit in London, which was attended by over 250 senior people from […]
An outbreak of common sense at the UK Department of Health?
GAfREC, the guidance document for UK NHS RECs, has just been updated. Until now all research within the NHS has required REC […]
The impact of cuts on creativity
Can creativity flourish at a time when government funding for arts and humanities is being cut? That was the question under discussion […]
