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Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else

In a post-truth era, five academics consider strategies, from inviting laypeople into the laboratory to open vivas, to improve trust in experts

Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania deploy a host of financial and intellectual resources to help locals build richer, healthier, more inclusive cities. John Morgan reports

Workshop offers guidance for the aspiring academic radio stars of the future

In an era of post-truth politics, academics and their research still have a vital role to play in influencing policy, says Graeme Reid

The Higher Education and Research Bill is a chance for institutions to show they do more than research and teaching, says Graham Virgo

Dame Ann Dowling¡¯s report called public support for collaboration ¡®excessively complex¡¯

Simon Gaskell and Adrian Collette explain why proper engagement is an important driver of institutional performance, teaching and research

For British science to thrive rather than just survive, EU partnerships and global recruitment remain key to fruitful collisions of concepts, says Ian Walmsley

Research into clairvoyant powers of mediums using old photographs has been retracted after it was ridiculed by scientists

Matthew Reisz reflects on how films can help engage the public with academic work on topics ranging from Chinese pop music to climate change

Matthew Reisz examines the pros and cons of using film as a form of public engagement

Leading scientist savages the widespread hostility to serious scientific evidence

Clive Oppenheimer recounts dodging lava bombs and gunmen as he guided the director to global hot spots for his film about volcanoes

Universities in Pakistan and across the developing world should help spread the light of learning, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Mehvish Riaz

David Matthews reports from Canada on the Trudeau government¡¯s plans to convert academic research into commercial gains

Funding bodies must foster a long-term vision for public awareness if research is to gain a place in the cultural mainstream, say Sam Illingworth and Andreas Prokop

Stephen Banks worries that the push to show real-world engagement may bury the ¡®deep knowledge¡¯ we ought to treasure

McMillan group report for Hefce urges institutions not to focus just on the number of spin-off companies 

New University Alliance chair John Latham ¡®wouldn¡¯t want to be unaligned¡¯ as an institution

New app helps people ¡®move beyond the headlines¡¯ about climate change

Government plans rise in research spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP, far above UK

Academia takes in some truly esoteric topics and tasks, but what are the strangest jobs? Here, five individuals with surprising roles describe their work

The discipline has promised big advances in many areas, but is it failing to live up to the hype? Three neuroscientists consider the state of their field

A rigorous methodology is essential to manage university patent portfolios, say Bruno Reynolds and Ben Oakley from Isis Enterprise in Oxford

Many more of the general public should help to plot the course of research, argue Christiaan De Beukelaer and Jan Baetens

Talking to the media isn¡¯t a minefield, says Fern Riddell, but a manageable opportunity and a civic duty

Campus collections have found new audiences and roles, but they still face significant questions, says Nicholas Thomas

By limiting its scope and eschewing academic departments, a campus in Latin America has left room for tradition and transformation, says Klaus Capelle

Universities must embrace entrepreneurship and work with industry ¨C but with their eyes open, says Nancy Rothwell

John Kingman, chair of the newly created UKRI, explains the governing philosophy of the research and innovation funding organisation

Nick Hillman offers academics advice on managing expectations and ensuring that their research has a big impact

Mark Shucksmith considers whether better knowledge exchange between academics and the third sector could serve as a mechanism for social change

The academy needs to look beyond knowledge transfer to co-production when it comes to working with the third sector, a report says

Researchers must learn to think like marketers if they want policymakers to listen, suggests discussion paper

Producing ¡®real¡¯ books builds academics¡¯ collective public presence, and it is also the most irresistible scholarly challenge, says ?d¨¹l Bozkurt

Increased funding is now available applying and commercialising research

Graduate start-ups also show employment and turnover growth, although fewer are being founded

The African Institute for Transformational Entrepreneurship will help propel Africa to the forefront of new knowledge creation, argues John Latham

Universities need to invest in the right people to make the leap from intellectual property to covetable product, says George Feiger

Working in our local areas is much more than charity for higher education institutions, says Stuart Laing

Hermann Hauser, who led efforts to launch Catapult network of commercialisation centres, sees a major cultural difference between UK and Germany

Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts

In the first of a series of blogs based on the opening seminar of the Centre for 51³Ô¹Ï Higher Education, Paul Ashwin takes a fresh look at a thorny concept

Getting politicians to learn the lessons of history can sometimes require an indirect approach, Queen Mary event hears

Researchers set out how academic insights can build trust between different groups

Scholars in the UK and Australia contemptuous of impact statements and often exaggerate them, study suggests

Despite claims that engagement with business is as important as research and teaching, academics find they have no time for work outside the academy

Scholar describes how mathematicians take their audience on a journey to new peaks of discovery

After political scientists pitched to commissioning editors, the TV professionals passed on some advice

Australian academic Benjamin Habib reflects on the worst public embarrassment of his career

A Glasgow student has returned to his native city of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan inspired to embrace the ideals of a ¡®learning city¡¯

In praise of ambition: no university, however esteemed, has an automatic right to reach the 22nd century, argues Edward Byrne

The world is impatient for the academy¡¯s social benefits, writes Lisa Anderson, but its core mission remains a slow-flowering one

Awareness of why some people make extensive use of management research at work can help researchers plan their dissemination strategies

Survey also finds that women do more work with the general public than male researchers

Three scholars share the pleasures and perils of sticking your head above the parapet

AHRC-funded festival flags up an astonishing variety of collaborative projects

Matthew Feldman reflects on academics¡¯ place in the insatiable 24-hour news cycle

Researchers have employed a comedian to help them reach out to a wider public