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For us research policy nerds, the past week has been like Christmas. Each of the constituent parts of UK Research and Innovation, as well ...

@NIHR, apparently. Or possibly a forgotten Britpop band It's a fast moving world in the Twittersphere, and you have to be quick to b...

Life on Quality St: the three speakers in action The ‘Essential Elements of a Successful Application’ workshop is like the purple one...

Call that a name? Delegates at the Praxis MacPraxface Conference 2016 have a go at renaming the organisation Exciting news has reached u...

Whisper McWhisperface Following the news that NERC had ignored the popular vote and named its new research ship Sir David Attenborough (...

First output from NERC/M&S Collaboration: 'Chocky McChockface' Following the exciting news of the NERC/M&S link up , t...

A NERC scientist chats happily to an M&S worker. Possibly It was announced yesterday  that NERC and Marks and Spencer would share da...

RRS Boaty McBoatface Last week NERC launched a competition to name its new £200m research ship, due for completion in 2019. 'Sha...

NERC Polaris House Swindon SN2 1EU Dear Vice Chancellor I am writing to you in connection with our recent announcement abou...

NERC's new polar research ship Excitement was palpable at Death Star House this morning as NERC unveiled plans for it's new pol...

It's holiday season, even for the good folks at Death Star Avenue . Now read on. A holiday cottage on the west coast of Wales. Rai...

NERC is introducing changes to its peer review process  to improve 'consistency, quality and transparency'. In an email to peer re...

It's been a while, hasn't it? And hey, it is (nearly) the end of the week. So here's another in our sporadic series of lookalike...

'100% you say? Well I'm sure I could make my Chaucer project fit  'Environmental Change'' Now here's a good ne...

Last week RCUK published impact case studies . The intention of this was, I think, twofold: to highlight to external bodies (such as the T...

I'm worried about those clever people at Polaris House . Our great and glorious research leaders, those academic taste makers who hold...

NERC has decided to join AHRC , BBSRC , EPSRC and ESRC and join the Research Outcomes System (ROS). This will take over from its Research ...

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

Hot on the heels of the ESRC's announcement that it is seeking new panel members, NERC is taking on additional members for its Peer Revi...

The Natural Environment Research Council has announced several changes to its responsive mode portfolio, which will take effect from 1 Janu...