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Prof John Mingers The research excellence framework - or REF - has become such an established part of the higher education landscape th...

Prof Sally Sheldon Yesterday we re-ran a session for the Early Career Researcher Network on 'Getting Published: targeting top journ...

Martha had finally found a use for the pasta maker they'd been given for their wedding Last year I wrote  a column  in response ...

'Swindon, we have a problem' My colleague Brian Lingley drew my attention to a rather alarming set of data from the ESRC last we...

In June an eminent group of academics, including Nobel laureates,  wrote the following to  The Daily Telegraph : "Peer review [of fun...

Last month we held an ESRC mock panel as part of the Grants Factory . This is a really useful exercise; it gives participants a flavour of...

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

Making a virtue of criticism Last week we had an impromptu  Grants Factory workshop, prompted by the visit of the  EPSRC 's Jane ...

Check that you've got something written next to your tickboxes...d'oh! The AHRC's Morag Sullivan gave us a startling stat...

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

As I said in my the previous post , I took part in a PGCHE mock panel today. I preparation I did some background reading on the ESRC pro...

'Save me from my friends'. Never truer than in the bearpit of academic peer review I took part in the University's PGCHE re...

The next Grants Factory event will focus on ‘how the peer review panel works,’ and will take place on Wed 30 January at 12noon in Cornwal...

The ESRC’s peer review panels, which assess grant applications, are seeking new members in the following areas: • Sociology, particularly so...

There has been an interesting development at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in America. Following on from their radical rethink on g...

As ever, EPSRC is blazing a trail in developing new hurdles for potential applicants. Hot on the heels of controversially 'managing...

The ESRC has recently held workshops - or 'masterclasses' - for members of its peer review college . These involved some of the Gr...

The AHRC is seeking nominations for its Peer Review College . I would encourage all research staff in relevant areas to consider putting th...

What turns panellists against an application? For Peter Bennett , who has had experience reviewing applications for NERC and other funders,...

We’re currently putting together the Grants Factory programme for the forthcoming year. One of the first events will look at the thorny iss...