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Back page gossip from the 18 June issue of Research Europe

ViewThe only one in the room

Saskia Walcott talks about race, research management and everyday microaggressions

ViewChina resets its research evaluation policies

Lin Zhang and Gunnar Sivertsen ask whether reforms can balance global excellence with local impact

ViewChange with the times

ERC’s push for multidisciplinary panels sets an example for EU

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Back page gossip from the 4 June issue of Research Europe

View‘Exposure to politics is making science worse’

Funding, public trust and interdisciplinarity feature in our third collection of reflections on Covid-19

View‘We are not as much in control as we thought’

Trust, openness and digitisation feature in our second collection of reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic

View‘We are supposed to be sort-of-used to the new normal’

Europe’s research community reflects on the pandemic’s impact and potential legacies

ViewInterconnected world needs ways to turn alarm bells into action

Covid-19 has exposed the inadequacy of 20th-century global governance, say Maria Ivanova and Amy Luers

ViewInnovation council can be Horizon Europe’s breakout hit

Boosting competitiveness is the next great challenge for European R&D, says Jerzy Langer

ViewThe new normal

Universities must be allowed to decide how and when to open

ViewInside out

Back page gossip from the 21 May issue of Research Europe

ViewUniversities initiative can thrive with the right support

EU’s partnership programme is popular but challenging, say Thomas Jørgensen and Anna-Lena Claeys-Kulik

ViewGood, bad and ugly in the EU’s coronavirus response

Research has been mobilised swiftly, but budget wrangles risk damaging future funding, says Daniel Spichtinger

ViewA duty of care

Universities must improve support for parents in lockdown

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Back page gossip from the 7 May issue of Research Europe

ViewLocked down shouldn’t mean shut out

Pandemic threatens progress on equality and inclusion, say Jakob Feldtfos Christensen and Lachlan Smith

ViewPresident’s resignation is not the ERC’s biggest problem

Ferrari’s stormy exit is just one aspect of a wider leadership gap, says Thomas König

ViewThe wrong horse

The ERC must explain how it chose a leader who left after three months

ViewEurope needs Erasmus+ more than ever

The shock to student mobility delivered by coronavirus should herald a transformation, says Jan Palmowski

ViewInside out

Back page gossip from the 23 April issue of Research Europe

ViewThe future will be different

Society’s response to coronavirus must be as radical as the pandemic’s impact, says Kurt Deketelaere

ViewBuild a science advice system fit for global crises

Coronavirus has revealed both the importance and limitations of current approaches, says Peter Gluckman

ViewEurope needs a green deal

Make sustainability the lodestar for post-pandemic policy, say Daniele Archibugi and his colleagues

ViewSpray locusts with data

Bringing open sources and expertise together can help smallholders protect their crops, says André Laperriere

ViewInside out

Back page gossip from the 2 April issue of Research Europe

ViewIn it together

The coronavirus crisis reveals untapped potential

ViewPatently misguided

Giving universities the rights to academics’ inventions has backfired, say Catalina Martinez and Valerio Sterzi

ViewThe great unknown

In the face of Covid-19, scientists must stand up for uncertainty

ViewOpen science turbocharges coronavirus response

Contrasting Covid-19 with SARS shows how far we’ve come, say Bobby Thompson and Chris Winchester