ViewBiostatistician announced as next RSS president

Andrew Garrett to take over from Sylvia Richardson at the Royal Statistical Society

ViewNational mandate

Rishi Sunak is crowned unopposed, while UCU members deliver a vote for all-out action

ViewRishi Sunak’s R&D pledges that could get a second chance

Here is what the sector might get from Sunak as prime minister

ViewRussian permafrost

Arctic research cooperation may never return to how it was before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

View‘Researchers need help to collaborate during crises’

Speakers at Research Professional News event call on politicians to create right framework for researchers

ViewEU’s health R&D found to lack funding and coordination

European Parliament report says Covid-19 revealed “systemic and inherent” weaknesses in health research funding

ViewReport shares strategies to curb faculty burnout

American Council on Education report makes recommendations including limiting out-of-hours communication

ViewFrom the archive: Making sense in English and German

Bids to a joint UK-German humanities scheme must not get lost in translation

ViewCrown Research Institutes regroup but face uncertainty

Annual reports from New Zealand’s forestry, landcare and geoscience institutes reveal new directions

ViewVaccine tsar’s travails show why science needs specialist comms

Kate Bingham’s revelations point to better ways to support expert advisers, says Fiona Fox

ViewGerman government reveals plans for data institute

New organisation planned to support evidence-based policymaking

ViewNordic news roundup: 11-17 October

This week: cost-saving reforms, award-winning Covid research and a downward slide in a global ranking

ViewBraver new world

Talk in Westminster is of restrictions on which overseas students can remain in the UK

ViewThought boxes and bubbles

First Nic Beech and co-authors, then Simon Kaye, discuss improving collaboration between academics and policymakers

ViewEurope ‘needs funding’ to develop higher education leadership

University leaders are caught between long-term strategy implementation and short-term crisis management, says EUA report

ViewBiomedical research centres in England awarded £800m

Funding will support 20 NIHR centres in areas such as cancer and dementia

ViewInflation and war cause trouble for Iter

But international fusion facility’s new boss says construction is “in full swing” despite challenges

ViewWhat’s going on in Europe: 30 September to 13 October

This week: Diversity and equality, intellectual property, quantum computing and more

ViewStraight talking

R&D-intensive countries need clarity on intellectual property

ViewPitch for London champion to attract overseas students

London Higher sets out its International Education Strategy for London

ViewResearch organisations demand support through energy crisis

German institutions and state ministers plead to keep the lights on as gas supplies dwindle

ViewCold shoulder

German institutions are demanding support during the energy crisis—but little action has been forthcoming

ViewHeidi, hi!

On Ada Lovelace Day, Playbook meets Jisc chief executive Heidi Fraser-Krauss

ViewEx-vaccine tsar bemoans lack of science expertise in civil service

Former head of Vaccine Taskforce Kate Bingham says Whitehall is “dominated by historians and economists”

ViewPost-pandemic medicine

The president of the National Academy of Medicine tells Playbook that medical research must change

ViewNetwork support

Maria Gardani explains why mental health research needs tailoring to address the Scottish context

ViewNordics news roundup: 4-10 October

This week: a research institute resignation, slowing Finnish education progress and a psychiatry research prize

ViewNorthern lights

You thought party conference season was over? Not quite

ViewGrow the pie

Ivory Tower: The UK’s premier university media relations team has a new client

ViewRNA innovation centre launched in Darlington

UK government provides £37 million for facility to boost development of technology behind Covid vaccines