ViewAustralia news roundup: 7-13 December

This week: Queensland commercialisation, animal genomics, artificial intelligence and a teaching review

View‘If the EU stands in our way, we are ready’

Horizon Europe membership remains the priority—but alternatives are on standby, writes George Freeman

ViewCurtin launches ‘cultural extremism’ research network

Australian network will look at issues including Covid conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine sentiment

ViewFlexible working

David Latchman welcomes proposals to support different study paths but says more clarity is needed

ViewDigital security call, improve your feedback, early career biosocial funder

A roundup of this week’s Funding Insight articles

ViewLockdown ‘made vulnerable groups even more vulnerable’

Female academics and those on temporary contracts suffered disproportionately from lockdown stress, Dutch report finds

ViewDutch government provides €150m for transport R&D

One-off boost for industry-academia consortia aims to counter pandemic effects on R&D spending

ViewNetherlands news roundup: 4-10 December

This week: an EIT sustainability award, an electrochemical agenda and no Covid passports on campus

ViewUS firm proposes UK health data framework to boost research

Framework would allow researchers to access data in a “transparent and trusted way”, says Palantir

ViewFacing the future

What Plan B means for universities and why higher education risks becoming less diverse

ViewIn-person teaching to continue as Omicron restrictions tighten

Department for Education publishes guidance for English universities after prime minister’s Plan B announcement

ViewCancer researchers call for urgent investment in UK clinical trials

Data for England reveal 60 per cent drop in cancer patients entering trials throughout pandemic

ViewStalemate in Congress stymies rise in US R&D spending

Lawmakers forced to pass stopgap legislation as Republicans dig in over defence funds

ViewEight challenges facing South African universities in 2022

Universities SA chief executive lists higher education sector’s main worries

ViewSouth African PhD graduates face tricky labour market

Many forced to settle for jobs outside their area of expertise, study finds

ViewEpidemics coalition seeks labs to assess vaccine efficacy

African laboratories sought for expansion of network measuring immune responses

ViewResearch central to Africa’s vaccine manufacturing push

Continent’s plan to become more self-sufficient includes US$20 billion for R&D

ViewAct now or face a lost generation

Europe must not let Covid-19 wreck the prospects of early career researchers, says Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

ViewFour myths of open access

Why transformative agreements change things for the better

ViewWhat’s going on in the EU: 25 November to 9 December

This week: R&D spending drops, defence spending rises, concern over Covid mutations and more

ViewNew Year’s resolution

Another year of the pandemic has given universities a lot to reflect on

ViewMy winning proposal: How Embo boosts up-and-coming countries

The Installation Grant that helped develop genomics facilities in Estonia

ViewInside out

Back page gossip from the 9 December issue of Research Europe.

View2021 review: launchpad to a new world?

This year, despite the pandemic, ambitious projects blasted off in search of a brighter future

ViewBumper Thursday

Playbook rounds up the news on a hectic morning for higher education

ViewDfE Christmas ‘gathering’ took place while London was in Tier 2

DfE held staff event but higher education minister did not attend, Research Professional News understands

ViewPreprints and data sharing ‘at low level’ during pandemic

Despite praise for pandemic openness, only one in 20 Covid-19 publications were released as preprints

View‘Enormous’ Erasmus+ problems causing ‘delays’ and ‘confusion’

University groups raise alarm over funding flows from EU’s academic mobility programme

ViewAcademia seeks involvement in EU’s new health emergency body

Universities say their expertise and research capacities make them “first-line” actors in emergencies

ViewWork creation

After a three-day UCU walkout, it is time for action short of a strike