Dorothy Bishop

Boat changing course to avoid iceberg, illustrating scientific course correction.

Does the glut of retractions mean science is in crisis? Hardly

All we are seeing is a necessary course correction to counter the infiltration of bad actors, say Leslie McIntosh, RenĲ Aquarius and Dorothy Bishop

Leslie McIntosh

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What can be done to improve research integrity?

As the pandemic increases public scrutiny of science, the UK Parliament is holding another inquiry into the long-running issue of reproducibility. Five of its contributors give their views on how sloppy science can be eliminated and trust be more firmly rooted

Dorothy Bishop

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Divergent paths - one direct, the other convoluted, symbolising two approaches to the REF

Is the benefit of the REF really worth the cost?

Simpler options are imperfect but perhaps no more so than the panels’ unavoidably cursory ‘peer review’ of submissions, says Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy Bishop

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Dorothy Bishop

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Now is a good time for the UK to ditch the REF and the TEF

Both are too resource-intensive to be sustainable during this crisis, and their objectives can be achieved through other measures, argues Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy Bishop

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Performance management is performance mismanagement

Research will suffer from the collapse of professional development into financially fixated assessments of ‘capability’, say Gill Evans and Dorothy Bishop

Gill Evans

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Academics are keen defenders of the student interest

Dorothy Bishop wishes people would stop reinforcing the idea that universities are places of privilege where the staff sit idly around thinking ‘great thoughts’

Dorothy Bishop

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A not-so-fond farewell to universities minister Jo Johnson

Dorothy Bishop will not miss Jo Johnson, but is under no illusions that new minister Sam Gyimah will overturn any of his reforms

Dorothy Bishop

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Dorothy Bishop: the costs of the teaching excellence framework

The TEF will divide universities into 'institutional sheep and goats' and then starve the goats, writes Dorothy Bishop on the eve of the HE Bill's second reading

Dorothy Bishop

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