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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

University reaches out to its local community through dramatised performances in the city graveyard

A ¡®genuinely public historian¡¯ and charismatic lecturer has died

Institution¡¯s School of Media, Arts and Design is 25 this year. Its current dean takes 51³Ô¹Ï through the reasons behind its success

Funding council extols virtues of Higher Education Innovation Funding as spending review cuts loom

Acting director of new research centre set up with Lego Foundation money says aim will be to explore whether there really is evidence that play enhances education

An electrical engineer who pioneered major developments in signal processing has died

Campuses are one of the ¡®strongest bits of the innovation system¡¯ and will be crucial to its ¡®rebuild¡¯, conference hears

Co-founder of investment firm says that more early career academics should be encouraged to think about the entrepreneurial route

Most REF case studies related simple, short-term impacts, missing a host of wider, longer-term effects, argues Trisha Greenhalgh

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says a lot of UK research would be reduced to ¡®irrelevance¡¯ in the event of Brexit

Reaching out offers many benefits to universities, says dean

But individuals are still much more likely to trust NHS sources of information on cancer

Fledgling company reaches out to the US sector to help broker university and industry collaboration

Part of the founding vice-chancellor¡¯s vision lives on at the University of Essex

Jon Marcus travels to the Big Easy to see the varying fortunes of the city¡¯s universities

Ellie Bothwell introduces our four ¡®innovation indicators¡¯ and reveals the strongest performers as we visualise a new ranking based on university-industry collaboration

Pro bono advice on campus is an engagement with student training at its core, says Zahir Irani

Director of knowledge exchange hub says that the arts and humanities can play a key role in bringing creative companies and academics together

Andrew Palmer on using the thinktank approach to solve problems that conventional research could take years to answer

The University of Surrey¡¯s centre for testing the next generation of mobile technology has seen significant buy-in from industry

Industry-led approach to doctoral education may ¡®marginalise¡¯ mentoring

Report says projects fail when scholars obsessed with ¡°shiny things¡± ignore business needs

Online encyclopaedia is currently dominated by male editors

Will open doors between the academy and the arts create a golden age?

Stina and the Wolf academics enlist students in bid to make first such full-length film from a UK university

We talk to the latest S¨ºr Cymru research chair

Partnerships between institutions and wider world now worth almost ?4 billion

REF case studies used to create a map of knowledge connections between fields

University of Wisconsin-Madison academic says disciplines, despite initial stumbles, might be better suited than some think

Complexity of government initiatives to help commercialise university research under scrutiny 

Universities UK has launched its fightback against the prospect of further funding cuts with the publication of a study highlighting the economic benefits of higher education

The UK¡¯s only national humanities research festival has announced funding awards to 41 universities and cultural organisations

Academics at Newcastle University have been matched with members of the public as pen pals.

Prosecutors rely on techniques developed by team at the University of Warwick to secure conviction in ¡®body in suitcase¡¯ killing

Student beds, government bonds and science parks in investment packages assembled by new UK innovation team

George Freeman says public will back government¡¯s ¡®brave decision¡¯ to open up healthcare records to medical research

Start-up aims to sidestep big pharmaceutical firms by developing its lab discoveries inside the university¡¯s walls. Plus the latest higher education appointments

¡®Culture change¡¯ needed to avoid job losses

Jim O¡¯Neill on how institutions outside London can do more to retain graduates and create jobs with government help

Hermann Hauser¡¯s report suggests technology hubs could offer advice on innovation policy and calls for metrics to measure centres¡¯ impact

Innovate UK is shifting its focus to boosting academia-industry engagement

The government should double the annual budget of its innovation agency to ?1 billion so it can establish more ¡°Catapult¡± centres, a new report says

The UK risks losing the global race to exploit the thinnest material on the planet, warns university leader

Institutions have long served as community anchors, and their role in local growth has scope to expand, says Madeleine Atkins