ViewGrant-writing for the right people, ESRC’s £9m ageing scheme, open science in bids, Cern fellowships

A roundup of this week’s Funding Insight articles

ViewLooking for work

A pay offer for lecturers and the difficulty of finding work experience in a pandemic

ViewSurvey: students less lonely now, but still more so than other adults

ONS data also show majority of students are already back at their term-time addresses

ViewWorld news roundup: 29 April to 6 May

This week: Sputnik vaccine, UN development goals research and COP26 science portal

ViewRoyal Society welcomes 63 fellows and foreign members

Fellows include Nobel Prize winner Stanley Whittingham and evolutionary biologist Rebecca Kilner

ViewOpportunity profile: African innovators line up to scale up

A competition from the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering offers training, mentoring and cash prizes

ViewPoliticians praise ERC as it names 10,000th grantee

Interim president Jean-Pierre Bourguignon says political endorsement “means a lot” to research community

ViewUniversity students working unpaid internships for longer

More than half of students say they worked for free for more than a month

ViewPublic-private R&D ‘paramount’ to EU industrial strategy

Industrial alliances in key areas will help EU avoid foreign dependencies, Commission says

ViewEurope funding at a glance: 23 April to 6 May

This week: sustainable food, soil science, Earth observation and French-Portuguese cooperation

ViewWHO aims for ‘transformation’ with launch of pandemic data hub

Governments’ willingness to share data will determine initiative’s success, say leaders

ViewAfrican research funding needs to balance excellence with equity

Funding biases entrench gap between those who have and have not, says Alphonsus Neba

ViewUS news roundup: 30 April to 6 May

This week: NSF expansion, space leadership and pandemic disparities

ViewItalian recovery plan falls short of expectations

Scientists urge spending increase after blue-sky research gets small share of €221.5 billion spending pot

ViewItaly news roundup: 23 April to 6 May

This week: simplification for early career academics, a data institute for Trieste and ranking success

ViewNatural selection

As dawn breaks on a day of elections across the UK, where do universities figure?

ViewUK labs for testing vaccine efficacy get £29.3m boost

New Porton Down facilities are aimed at fast-tracking development of vaccines against Covid variants

ViewHow to spot a civic university

Institutions have a new way to understand their contribution to their places, says Julian Dobson

ViewDon’t rush in

Jo Grady spells out what needs to happen before campuses are at full capacity

ViewReaching out

The National Science Foundation looks to link up

ViewVidal aims for full campus return this year

Minister promises French students will have complete access to universities, but admits to backup plan

ViewReturn to lender

Thousands of graduates are still owed millions of pounds after overpaying their student loans

ViewWarning as UK aid R&D cuts hit international coronavirus projects

Politicians call on UK government to maintain funding for international research projects fighting Covid-19

ViewPfizer’s UK manager to preside over British pharma trade body

Ben Osborn announced as the new president of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

ViewR&D features in Belgian, Polish and Slovenian recovery plans

Countries’ draft plans join others targeting part of their Covid-19 funding to research and innovation

ViewLifebuoys for London

Diana Beech suggests the capital’s universities can help keep London afloat whoever is elected mayor

ViewEnvironmentally friendly

The Russell Group responds to government concerns about research careers—but is it enough?

ViewHealth research council moves to mandate immediate open access

Australian council releases discussion paper on immediate open-access publication of research it funds

ViewMāori approaches needed in NZ science policy, report says

Five-point “agenda for change” calls for Māori chief scientific advisers and improved research funding guidelines

ViewDon’t rush in

Jo Grady spells out what needs to happen before campuses are at full capacity