Jack Grove
Deputy Features Editor and Reporter at Times Higher Education (THE)
Times Higher Education deputy features editor & reporter on research and research policy, including funding, academic publishing, ethics and misconduct.
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1 week ago |
timeshighereducation.com | Jack Grove
Scientists who switch the focus of their research to tackle emerging challenges receive significantly fewer citations for their new work, a Nature study has found. Analysing more than 25 million papers published over a 45-year period, US researchers found that a pervasive “pivot penalty” applied “near universally across science” as the “impact of new research steeply declines the further a researcher moves away from their previous work”.
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1 week ago |
timeshighereducation.com | Jack Grove
Ten candidates will contest the election to become the University of Cambridge’s next chancellor. Among those approved to stand in July’s ballot are broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, former Labour culture minister Chris Smith, ex-BP boss John Browne and businesswoman Gina Miller.
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1 week ago |
timeshighereducation.com | Jack Grove
With multimillion-pound donations and highly profitable publishing and examinations arms pushing its endowment above £4 billion, the University of Cambridge is viewed enviously by most higher education leaders.
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2 weeks ago |
timeshighereducation.com | Jack Grove
Nine in 10 recipients of British Academy early career fellowships secured permanent academic posts, with more than a third holding professorships, a new report has found. Analysing the career outcomes of more than 1,100 former recipients of the academy’s postdoctoral fellowships and its Rising Star Engagement Awards, researchers from the Careers Research and Advisory Centre (Crac) found that 91 per cent of former postdocs now held permanent academic roles, mostly in Russell Group universities.
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2 weeks ago |
timeshighereducation.com | Jack Grove
About 80 staff at De Montfort University (DMU) are set to be made redundant in an effort to save £8 million. Announcing plans to cut academic and professional service posts at the Leicester-based university in an email to staff, DMU’s vice-chancellor Kate Normington said the institution was embarking on consultation “aimed at saving around £8 million which could result in up to 80 roles being made redundant”.
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