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Focus on research culture obscures wider and deeper problems, say Paul Manners and Rory Duncan

Disarray in government will make it harder for research to deliver benefits, says John Whitfield

Authorship records bring sobering evidence to debate over goals and approaches, says Gali Halevi

Mark Carrigan calls for more strategic direction in the way universities use social media platforms
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Heidi Fraser-Krauss argues that ChatGPT is not as bad (or as good) as you think

Ivory Tower: a new Shakespearean tragicomedy is discovered through literary scholarship

UK Shared Prosperity Fund is failing research—and regional growth

Back page gossip from the 1 February issue of Research Fortnight

Martha Longdon suggests lessons to learn from the Office for Students’ first five years

Ivory Tower: a new year and a return of our fly-on-the-wall documentary

Chris Millward suggests ways to unblock the university superhighway

Ivory Tower: the elite of higher education and research are up a mountain

The pandemic’s legacy of increased public attention demands that researchers communicate better, says Richard Horton

Worsening ransomware threat demands an institution-wide response led from the top, says Henry Hughes

Prospect of strikes at UKRI highlights challenges facing the funder

Back page gossip from the 18 January issue of Research Fortnight

Adam Golberg looks at what procedures for booking seminar rooms reveal about university culture

Joanna Forbes asks what happens next to quality and standards in English higher education

Nancy Rothwell predicts challenges for the year ahead and makes a few wishes

Ivory Tower: We search for hope amid the grate and good of higher education

Leading higher education figures make new year’s resolutions for themselves and others

War in Ukraine, publishing prices and more—the biggest opinion pieces of the year

Richard Watermeyer suggests what higher education leaders could learn from football managers

Ivory Tower: Another year, another pantomime in higher education and research

Christopher Jackson explains why he left an academic job to work in the private sector

Policies to boost R&D will inevitably create tensions, say Sarah Main and Graeme Reid

Small companies may struggle to use secure environments for patient data, says Emma Lawrence

Back page gossip from the 14 December issue of Research Fortnight

REF reform is up for grabs in a flurry of end of year news

What’s Liz Truss’s next move? Is Paul Nurse still reviewing? John Whitfield looks ahead

The authors of a report on research assessment reflect on changes since a landmark analysis

Andrew McNeil and David Soskice argue for much wider participation in UK higher education

Ivory Tower: Exclusive access to the government’s higher education and research WhatsApp group

William Wallace says researchers must respond to increasing attention on who is funding political research

Ivory Tower: As NCUB’s annual report is published, we meet a couple in marriage therapy

Balancing entrepreneurial and research missions demands deft handling of intellectual property, says Ian Walmsley

Criticism of universities’ share of companies misses what they give in return, says Douglas Dowell