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As we stumble towards the end of 2017, our heads spinning with fake news and fake news about fake news, it's time to look back and thi...

Internal peer review has become increasingly prevalent in universities across the UK. The trend is the result of a push by the research c...

ARMA training: The Royal York Hotel I took part in an ARMA event today. The focus was on how we, as research administrators and managers...

Bradley Wiggins: what's easier, the Tour de France or winning a Research Council award? When you think about the world of research ...

I took part in the AHRC ’s inaugural ‘Developing Better Applications’ event yesterday. It was a great event, and a good opportunity to c...

NERC has become the third Research Council - after EPSRC and ESRC - to explicitly state that they want universities to 'self regulat...

Right! Time to stop whatever you're doing, and make for the newstands: the autumn edition of our newsletter, ResearchActive , is out. It...

The University will be introducing an internal peer review system from 1 October. Kent Peer Review (KPR) comes in response to the stated i...

The summer edition of the Research Services Newsletter, ResearchActive, is now available. A hard copy has been sent to all staff, but if you...

Last week I wrote about imminent changes to the ESRC funding schemes. Yesterday I went along to their regional event at Brighton , and go...

Disturbing - but, let's be frank, unsurprising - news from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities on Death Star Avenue. They're plann...

We're currently working on a proposal for introducing University-wide internal peer review. I'll talk more about it in future posts,...