Today on the Academic Minute: Russell Ciochon, professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa, explains that this isn't the first time humans have faced the crisis of rising sea levels. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Read more...
By Helen Lock. Writing grant applications can be both tedious and nail-biting. It is, nonetheless, a fundamental part of academic life. All disciplines place emphasis on winning funding to get ahead, but competition is intense, particularly for early career researchers. More...
By David Matthews. The research teams who did best in last year’s research excellence framework (REF) tended to have more non-UK academics and people with experience overseas, and generally used carrots rather than sticks to motivate members, a new analysis has found. More...
Par B. IGNACIO-LUCCIONI. Jusqu'à la fin de cette année, les programmes de recherche de l'université de Corse bénéficiaient des aides du Feder (Fonds européen de développement régional) et du CPER (contrat de plan État-région). De 2007 à 2013, près d'une trentaine d'emplois contractuels était financée pour soutenir la recherche au sein de l'université de Corse. Ce qui ne sera plus le cas après 2015. L'université a alors dû tirer la sonnette d'alarme. Voir l'article...
La région Guyane est très différente des régions métropolitaines et des autres régions françaises d'outre-mer. Ces différences sont liées à sa localisation sur le continent sud-américain et en Amazonie, à sa grande superficie, (83 534 km2, 16 % de la superficie du territoire hexagonal), à son climat équatorial humide, à son milieu naturel prépondérant avec une forêt pluviale occupant 94 % du territoire. Néanmoins, on observe un déficit dans les infrastructures routières et aériennes créant un enclavement du territoire par rapport au reste du monde. Voir l'article...
There is an identified urgent need for Australia to improve the application of outputs from its investment in publicly funded research. Utilising country comparisons, this project will analyse international best practice approaches to encouraging and facilitating research translation, commercialisation and collaboration. This will include an analysis of measures to facilitate collaboration between researchers, businesses and other organisations, focusing on government strategies as well as industry, institutional and sectorial approaches. The resulting report will make evidence based findings about how current levels of translation, commercialisation and collaboration in Australia could be improved and examine how international models could be applied in Australia. More...
By Sarah Roberts. At one of the recent all-staff meetings at UQ’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), people were asked to describe some of their experiences working under fixed-term employment conditions. With tears in her eyes, one woman described the anxiety-inducing experience of rolling part-time, three-month contracts. More...
By Matthew Francis. With their recent horrific attacks and no apparent end in sight to the conflict in Syria and Iraq, it may seem that there is little understanding of ISIS. However, research in universities is leading the way both in understanding and disrupting ISIS and this research is an invaluable resource to those tasked with fighting them. Read more...
By . This is a paper about the development of ‘academic innovation centers’ in the USA. These go by a variety of names, such as ‘the Centre for Teaching and Learning’ or ‘the Centre for Learning Sciences’, but they are basically integrating faculty development, instructional design and a range of other services for faculty (and in some cases also directly for students) to provide a locus for innovation and change in teaching and learning. More...
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the development of the UK and Italian university research funding systems with a special focus on Peer Review-Based Research Assessment (PRBRA) and its cost. Much of the debate surrounding the value of performance-based allocation systems hinges on the disadvantages versus the benefits of their implementation, and there is very little evidence on either their absolute cost or their cost relative to other allocation systems. Our objective is to fill this gap, collating the best possible estimates of the costs of alternative research funding methods to inform the ongoing policy debate. First, we compare funding in the UK and Italy during the period 2005–2012 and analyze the development of performance-based allocation in the two systems. Second, based on public reports and documents collected from universities, we discuss the public agency and university costs of RAE2008 and REF2014 and provide some estimates for VQR2012. We find that RAE2008 costs accounted for less than 1% of the total performance allocation in the related period while the VQR2012 efficiency ratio is estimated at around 2.5%. Finally, we compare the costs and efficiency ratios of PRBRA with metrics-based assessment and Research Council allocations and show that costs increase going from metrics to PRBRA to Research Council allocation.
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