5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (598+ words) Image: Anna Dziubinska, via Unsplash Sense of shared identity makes Greens’ faith in scientists stronger than Reform voters’, study finds There is growing evidence of US-style political polarisation in the levels of trust that people in the UK have in…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (94+ words) Research Professional News Image: Wasan, via Adobe Stock Paper calls for stable careers and creativity-focused assessment, but authors pessimistic about seeing meaningful change Structural reforms are needed to foster a “creativity-enabling environment” for early career researchers, who are being driven…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (88+ words) Project aims to join up Europe’s ‘fragmented’ science advice Research Professional News Image: Ian Hayhurst, via Shutterstock Coordinator of EU-funded initiative wants a “truly connected” science-for-policy ecosystem An EU-funded project is aiming to strengthen links between science and policymaking in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (469+ words) Image: filip bossuyt [CC BY 2.0], via Flickr Number of non-European winners almost doubles as success rate falls for second year running The success rate for the latest European Research Council Starting Grant round has dropped to just 8.8 per cent—a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (914+ words) Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News Treasury unlikely to provide extra money to meet Horizon successor’s higher association costs, experts warn Questions are looming over how the UK will pay for association from the start of the EU’s next…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (263+ words) Irish minister calls for swift progress on negotiations around next EU research and innovation programme “All indications” point to the next version of the EU’s research and innovation programme getting a “significant” budget increase relative to the current one, according…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1220+ words) Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News. Sources: Wellcome Genome Campus Limited; John Sutton [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons; Frances Jones for Research Professional News On a list of potential locations to replicate the success of King’s Cross in creating…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (258+ words) Wellcome will invest £155 million in 14 doctoral training programmes, aiming to back researchers facing what the biomedical funder called an “incredibly challenging” career landscape. The programmes will aim to increase the number of research-active healthcare professionals in the UK, a group…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (80+ words) German research council ‘determined to intensify’ US ties Research Professional News Funder stresses scientific independence and researcher mobility amid “challenging geopolitical conditions” Germany’s largest public research funder has promised to strengthen German-US research collaboration after meeting with American sector leaders…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (488+ words) Image: Canva Studio, via Pexels Innovative organisations that can “do things differently” should be eligible for funding, group argues A group of research bodies has urged UK Research and Innovation to lift a “de facto ban” on supporting new organisations,…...