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The basement of Death Star House (Photo by Víctor Jesús Carrasco) The news that the Pathways to Impact attachment was being dropped fro...

The poster for the new movie, to feature John Kingman Well, it's all become clear. The secrecy, the spiralling budget.  The recr...

Some of you will have whiled away a slow afternoon playing with the Research Council Priority Generator. Well, in this world of Facebook q...

The Researchfish system is used to collect information on the outputs, outcomes and impacts that have arisen from Research Council-funded r...

The Nurse Review presented its report yesterday, and a key recommendation was the creation of  'Research UK', which would have ov...

Earlier this year, Research Councils UK  published data  on the ages and sex of people who applied for grants between 2010 and 2013. The...

Lifting the lid on visualisation The AHRC has launched a competition for 'designers, graphic artists, software developers, program...

Last week saw an international focus on Open Access (OA) , and the University played a part by hosting  an event  to explore the brave new p...

As part of international Open Access Week , the University is inviting some key players in the sector to discuss the current state of play...

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...

This week sees the introduction of the University's Open Access Policy . For those who are new to OA, I thought it would be useful to ...

Pope: Catholic, apparently. Well, you may have noticed that things have been somewhat quiet over at Fundermentals Towers. Yes, I've ...

Shelby SuperCars Inc. Share an acronym with the Shared Services Centre. Oh! The glamour! There's good news from the Shared Servic...

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

A quick post to publicise the excellent Research Counselling , a cartoon website the focuses on the trials and tribulations of dealing with ...

Cast your mind back 26 days. Yes, I know, it seems like decades ago now. Before the holidays. Before the return to work. Even before the re...

The Research Councils have recently sent all universities details of their plans for 'more efficient' (i.e. less) funding for projec...

I went along to an excellent PVC's Lunchtime S eminar this afternoon on medical research and non-standard sources of research funding. ...

A delicious story reported by Research Fortnight : apparently the rocky road to development of the Research Councils' 'Shared Servi...

The Research Councils' Joint Electronic Submission system (JeS) is introducing some changes on 20 April. These are intended to make the ...