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Chemistry World January 7, 2009 James Mitchell Crow |
UK chemists force funding compromise More young chemists in the UK look set to receive government grants after the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) bowed to pressure from the chemistry community to spread its early career funding more widely. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Leila Sattary |
Research council to pick favorites to receive UK chemistry funding The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of 'national importance'. |
Chemistry World November 8, 2011 Walter & Howes |
EPSRC sticks to its funding strategy guns The UK's principal chemistry funding body is pressing ahead with its controversial 'shaping capability' strategy. This is despite anger over the way the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has said it will decide which areas to prioritise in the physical sciences. |
Chemistry World May 2009 |
Funding fall-outs The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recently announced plans to ban persistently unsuccessful grant applicants for one year. Why did it do this and why are some UK chemists unhappy about it? |
Chemistry World October 20, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
UK chemists warn of funding crisis Senior researchers have warned that a sharp drop in the number of research grants awarded this year risks damaging UK chemistry. |
Chemistry World May 5, 2009 Anna Lewcock |
EPSRC back-tracks on funding policy The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council has today bowed to pressure from the scientific community and revised its recent policy on blacklisting academics with low success rates for grant applications. |
Chemistry World October 2011 David Delpy |
EPSRC Funding The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
UK chemists must take control The Engineering and physical sciences research council second international review of UK chemistry has warned that too little is being done to support early-career researchers and encourage high-risk research. |
Chemistry World January 12, 2011 Andy Extance |
EPSRC plans represent 'huge change' Academics are concerned that research grant cuts through to 2015 at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, changes in how students are funded, and more centralized control will threaten science careers. |
Chemistry World February 3, 2012 Patrick Walter |
NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants The UK Natural Environment Research Council is planning to ask institutes to winnow out 'uncompetitive' proposals in an effort to drive up its grant application success rates. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
EPSRC Forced to Cut Science The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to cut the volume of science it funds over the next three years. |
Chemistry World March 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic With new restrictions on Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) first grant schemes, funding may become even more elusive |
Chemistry World March 30, 2012 Patrick Walter |
Controversial physical sciences shaping strategy comes to a close For better or worse, the main UK physical sciences funding body has finished deciding which areas of science will see their funding grow and which will shrink. |
Chemistry World February 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic Late last year, the success rate for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council first grant scheme was dropping alarmingly. |
Chemistry World March 12, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Funding Shift Worries Researchers Government and research funding bodies are shifting funding towards projects with measurable societal and economic impact -- triggering protests from many academics, who see the strategy as dangerously short sighted. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2014 Mark Peplow |
The value of trust When Philip Nelson becomes chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in April, he has to convince government to increase investment in research and to to win back the trust of the very scientists that the council funds. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2011 Patrick Walter |
Chemists Vent Anger at Funding Body in Letters to UK Government UK chemists are in open revolt over administrative interference in their field by the main grant funder. |
Chemistry World November 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Editorial: Competing priorities The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has been restructuring the way it funds chemistry. It is focusing on funding multi-disciplinary teams in large research programs for longer times. |
Chemistry World April 2, 2013 Laura Howes |
Funding boost for PhDs UK research funder, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, has announced 84.2 million for doctoral training grants, stipends awarded to institutions to fund PhD students. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2015 Patrick Walter |
EPSRC head pledges greater dialogue with researchers The new head of the UK's physical sciences research council plans to make engagement his watchword. |
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Patrick Walter |
EPSRC names new chief executive The next chief executive of the UK's main chemistry funding body will be Philip Nelson, currently pro-vice chancellor of the University of Southampton. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Emma Stoye |
EPSRC announces 83.5m boost for PhD training The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will invest an additional 83.5 million pounds this year in doctoral training partnerships in the UK, universities and science minister David Willetts has announced. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2015 Ned Stafford |
Falling Horizon success rates worry research community The report from the European commission has caused concern among the continent's university and business research community and EU officials. |
Chemistry World Ned Stafford |
ERC concludes first phase of advanced grants The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the final cash handouts from its first ever 'Advanced Grants' competition, worth a total of 542 million, and launched the competition's second phase of funding. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
UK's chem-bio interface gets mixed report United Kingdom scientists working at the interface between chemistry and biology think their research councils don't adequately support interdisciplinary research, a survey suggests. |
Chemistry World May 16, 2012 Patrick Walter |
The death of UK science? A new lobby group of scientists launched itself with a mock funeral for UK science to protest recent actions taken by the main funder of chemistry research in the UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. |
Chemistry World October 11, 2007 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Exclusive Interview: EPSRC's New Chief Executive, David Delpy UK chemists have been too content to 'fill the gaps' instead of tackling big, exciting problems. That's the view of medical physicist David Delpy, who recently started work as the chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. |
Chemistry World September 2011 |
Future funding concern The announcement by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council about future research funding has caused concern in the chemistry community. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2011 Patrick Walter |
UK chemistry threatened by funding squeeze Chemistry in the UK is in danger of falling behind its international competitors as a result of a squeeze on funding for vital lab equipment, according to chemistry department heads. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2015 Emma Stoye |
UK announces 40m fund for synthetic biology The UK government has said it will invest 40 million pounds in synthetic biology over the next five years, 32 million of which will be used to establish three new research centers. |
Chemistry World March 15, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Budget Cuts for UK Science Scientists and research managers in the UK have reacted with dismay to a 68 million-pound raid on the budget of the research councils - the state agencies that fund the bulk of civil science research in the country. |
Chemistry World January 31, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Funding council backs doctoral training centers with 350m pounds. The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced that it will invest 350 million pounds in a second generation of Centers for Doctoral Training aligned towards priority areas of research. |
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 Maria Burke |
Chemists' anxiety mounts as spending review nears The UK government will publish its spending review, setting out funding commitments and priorities for the next five years. This review will include funding levels for scientific research and wider public investment in science and engineering. |
Chemistry World November 13, 2012 Leila Sattary |
Chancellor singles out science to drive economic growth The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has outlined eight technology areas in which he wants the UK to lead the world. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
T.H.E. Journal January 2004 Weaver & Fernley |
Tips for Getting Your Educational Technology Projects Funded Two points are important no matter what grant or source of funding you are looking at. |
Chemistry World February 1, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions The US's premiere science agencies may be inadvertently awarding tens of millions of dollars to scientists who submitted the same grant proposal multiple times and accepted duplicate funding. |
Chemistry World December 16, 2009 Anna Lewcock |
Research funding plan should be abandoned, say academics A petition bearing 18,000 signatures calling for the abandonment of economic impact assessment in research funding applications has been delivered to the Higher Education Funding Council for England |
Information Today July 10, 2006 Robin Peek |
RCUK Releases Long-Awaited OA Policy The RCUK released its updated position paper, which now only strongly encourages that a substantial portion of its funded research must be OA. |
Chemistry World April 30, 2010 Sarah Houlton |
EU research faces radical overhaul The European Commission has responded to calls from researchers to cut red tape in EU funding processes and has also proposed radical changes to EU research funding policies, moving towards linking payment to results. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2013 Laura Howes |
Five green chemical feedstock projects launched The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced 10.7 million pounds, in combination with 1.1 million pounds from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to fund five projects to develop new bio-based feedstocks for the chemical industry. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2014 Maria Burke |
Spending on UK science and engineering continues to fall The latest figures on UK spending on science, engineering and technology make gloomy reading for the new science minister Greg Clark. |
Chemistry World January 2008 Gurney & Adams |
Comment: How Good is UK Chemistry? Using bibliometrics as the key measure, the author compares the publication output of different countries. |
Chemistry World November 25, 2013 Patrick Walter |
New doctoral training centers get go ahead UK science minister David Willetts has announced 72 new centers to train more than 3500 PhD students over the next four years. |
Chemistry World September 2009 |
Education and wealth It seems that the UK government is interested in answering the question: what return does the UK get for the money it puts into academic research in chemistry? |
Chemistry World February 2007 John O'Reilly |
The Tyranny of Peer Review? All of us involved in the scientific peer review process must avoid being unduly conservative or risk-averse if we are to secure the required balanced research investment portfolio, including an appropriate proportion of high-risk, high-return activities. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2015 Maria Burke |
Grant application peer review system 'works well' The role of peer review in assessing grant applications has often been the subject of debate among scientists. Now, a recent analysis by US researchers suggests the system is working well. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2009 Anna Lewcock |
Focus on economic impact the way forward, says RCUK The chief executives of the UK's seven research councils have stepped forward to defend moves to reprioritize the nation's research on projects that offer economic benefits. |
Chemistry World December 2006 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: A Shot in the Arm for Science Education University science education has received a significant boost with the announcement that the Higher Education Funding Council for England will provide an extra 75 million pounds for courses in chemistry, physics, and engineering. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2012 Maria Burke |
EU and UK bitten by the open access bug The European commission plans to make all the research findings funded by its 80 billion euro 2014 -- 2020 research program, Horizon 2020, accessible to all. |