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UK’s share of global research outputs falls

1 day ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones

Growth of China and India challenges dominance of traditional research-intensive nations, including US and GermanyThe UK’s share of global research outputs fell between 2018 and 2022 in tandem with other traditional research powerhouses, according to government figures. Over the same period, the UK’s rate of international collaboration increased, taking it to the top spot in 2022.
Next EU presidency plans ‘more strategic’ approach to science

1 day ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones

Image: Frances Jones for Research Professional News Danish higher education and science minister outlines EU research priorities for coming six monthsThe upcoming Danish presidency of the Council of the EU will aim to usher in a “more strategic” approach to science, focusing on critical technologies, the Danish higher education and science minister has indicated.
Budget pressure sees ‘slowing down of activities’ at STFC

1 day ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Frances Jones

Image: Thomas Angus / Imperial College London Research council chief hopes to avoid redundancies and promises to protect “world-class” science, documents revealThe head of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has told staff that the council will be “slowing down activities” due to financial pressures.
Can sharing research offices drive university efficiency?

1 day ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fiona McIntyre

UUK taskforce and SFC are pushing shared services, but tensions exist between collaboration and competitionEarlier this week, the vice-chancellors’ body Universities UK shared its plan for how universities can work together to drive efficiencies and save costs—with shared services in research among the solutions it proposed.
US news roundup: 30 May to 5 June

2 days ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Anna McKie

Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News This week: a Springer Nature deal, health department cuts and more USAid concernsIn depth: Details released by the Trump administration on the proposed 2026 budgets for federal agencies have met with alarm from the scientific community.
Ten institutions create more than half of UK university spinouts

2 days ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Emily Twinch

Image: sommart, via Getty Images “Landmark” register also shows that a fifth of companies come from LondonA new register of UK university spinout companies shows that more than half come from just 10 institutions, with one in five emerging from London. The register—published on 5 June and said to be the first of its kind in the world—lists 2,269 spinouts.
‘Irresponsible’ to implement RFK Jr-led error-riddled report

2 days ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Anna McKie

Experts decry lack of scientific rigour behind health department’s Make America Healthy Again reportThe US government should not use the Make America Healthy Again report for policymaking, experts have said, after it was revealed the report cited non-existent studies and misinterpreted others. The MAHA report, published on 22 May by the health department led by Robert F.
Von der Leyen: Europe will be ‘home of scientific freedom’

2 days ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Craig Nicholson

European Commission president also underscores independence of EU R&I programme in much-praised speechThe European Commission president has stressed the importance of scientific freedom, in a speech that has won enthusiastic praise from research and innovation leaders. “The freedom of science is essential…Without scientific freedom, humanity stands still,” Ursula von der Leyen (pictured) said at a European Parliament event on 4 June.
UK funding at a glance: 23 May to 5 June

2 days ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Anna McKie

Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News This week: Research Ventures Catalyst update, AHRC UK-Brazil scheme and moreMinisters are expected to expand innovation funding linking UK Research and Innovation with regional authorities in the upcoming spending review.
From the archive: AHRC ‘likes the weird and wonderful’

2 days ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Sophie Inge

Why it can be worth avoiding the tried and tiredWhen the Arts and Humanities Research Council relaunched its responsive mode schemes in 2023, it did so ultimately “to support bigger, more ambitious projects” and to “offer something that will spark the genuinely novel”, as AHRC leaders Ruth Robinson and Jaideep Gupte told us at the time.