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ViewGovernment announces £106m for five quantum technology hubs

Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Oxford get centres in areas from medical imaging to cybersecurity

ViewYoung Academy opens doors to researchers at risk

Council for At-Risk Academics and body representing young researchers team up to support academics

ViewUK and Australian agencies forge research alliance

UKRI and CSIRO sign agreement to collaborate on addressing global challenges

ViewUK visa costs for cancer scientists ‘rise 44% in a year’

Cancer Research UK urges government to reduce fees, as bill across four institutes “nears £700,000”

ViewLabour tipped to ‘change focus’ on next UKRI leader

Recruitment process well underway before election, but new science minister may have “names up sleeve”

ViewBritish Academy makes housing expert its next president

Cambridge-based geographer Susan Smith will head up humanities and social sciences body from July 2025

ViewUKRI awards £104m to promising early career researchers

Research funder hands out Future Leaders Fellowships to 68 projects this round

ViewBiochemical Society appoints new head

Phil Morgan will take over from Kate Baillie in December this year

ViewUK ‘needs urgent focus on skills’ to benefit from RNA boom

Centre for Process Innovation report finds “significant skills and workforce gaps” in emerging field

ViewScience Europe ‘renews focus’ on research integrity

Group of major research funding and performing organisations offers recommendations for “cornerstone” of research

ViewUK ‘underperforming potential’ in life sciences

New figures spotlight fall in foreign investment and failure to innovate via NHS

ViewAHRC puts grant extension scheme on hold

Review of £100,000 knowledge exchange grants is part of a re-examination of responsive mode grants

ViewFrancis Crick Institute announces new director and chief executive

European Molecular Biology Laboratory leader gets top job at UK biomedical research centre

ViewFirst guidelines launched for stem cell-based embryo models

Code of practice provides clear guidance for embryo models to improve fertility research

ViewStudy reveals secrets of UK’s ‘Nobel Prize factory’

Analysis of Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge suggests management strategy critical for scientific breakthroughs

ViewUS scientific instruments firm moves UK headquarters

Leco’s new premises will be in Alderley Park, where it promises to boost training

ViewAI can produce huge benefits in R&D efficiency, finds study

MIT experts expect to see an increase in researcher productivity when using artificial intelligence

ViewEditors of sexual misconduct book urged to fight ‘silencing’

Academic hopes for new publisher to ensure “survivors’ voices” are heard after Routledge drops book

ViewNuffield Foundation streamlines grant application process

Charity simplifies outline application form and updates guidance for researchers

ViewR&D investments create jobs across board, paper finds

Benefits of innovation are more inclusive than governments and local authorities may realise, expert argues

ViewUK visas up to 17 times pricier than average, analysis finds

Royal Society president says widening gulf in upfront costs for researchers is “damaging UK’s competitiveness”

ViewUK police to look at improving its data quality

Benefits of crime prevention initiatives will also be assessed, as part of research into policing

ViewStatistics society wants ministers sent back to school

Lack of understanding and misuse of statistics undermines public trust, says Royal Statistical Society

ViewEDI a ‘win-win’ for engineering business, says academy

Adopting equality, diversity and inclusion practices and understanding is “vital”, says Royal Academy of Engineering

ViewPrepare for final Je-S phase-out, research managers told

Arma 2024: Research teams must ensure staff have access to UKRI’s new funding system

ViewResearch managers urged to experiment with AI

Arma 2024: AI touted as aid to grant application support and early career researcher coaching

ViewBusiness group alarmed by weak academia-industry links

NCUB report suggests loss of EU structural funds has had “immediate impact on these interactions”

ViewEPSRC chair: political interest in research brings pressure

Arma 2024: Increased political and public support for research means system 'must provide better answers'

ViewPublishers reveal AI tools and guidance for research integrity

Tools developed to help address “malicious threat from paper mills” to publishers

ViewUKRI advisers at heart of libel row resign

Members of equality, diversity and inclusion advisory group quit after false accusations from science secretary