พอดคาสท์ Octopus Publishing ชั้นนำ (2024)

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A checklist for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals 35:33

6d ago35:33

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When Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency, sought to change the country’s food systems in 2020, it started by looking at school meals and funding several projects around menus, procurement, and how cafeterias were organised. Breaking down a big goal into smaller component parts and bringing together different interested parties, as Vinnova did, is k…

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How artificial intelligence can help to keep us safe 30:44

13d ago30:44

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Growing up in the last years of the Cold War motivated Gabriele Jacobs to enter academia and play her part in building peaceful societies. Jacobs works at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where she researches the role artificial intelligence (AI) can play in public safety and the ethical debate surrounding this. She describes how ex…

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My mission to protect threatened mangroves 25:19

19d ago25:19

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Sigit Sasmito describes how his research at James Cook University in Brisbane, Australia, is helping to protect both peatlands and mangroves across southeast Asia, as part of a drive to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15. The goal, one of 17 agreed by the United Nations in 2015. aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial …

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How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans 31:12

27d ago31:12

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Watching documentaries about the Titanic inspired deep-sea microbiologist Beth Orcutt to study life at the bottom of the ocean - a world of ‘towering chimneys, weird shrimp and octopus nurseries’ that she has visited 35 times. But Orcutt says there is so much we still don't know about the deep sea, which is a problem for the sustainable development…

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How we slashed our lab’s carbon footprint 24:09

1M ago24:09

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Analytical chemist Jane Kilcoyne was working in her biotoxin monitoring lab one day in 2018 when she noticed a bin overflowing with plastic waste. The observation prompted her to join forces with like-minded colleagues and develop a package of measures aimed at reducing their lab’s carbon footprint. Their efforts include reducing energy consumption…

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Meet the retired scientists who collaborate with younger colleagues 19:18

3M ago19:18

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In the sixth and final episode of The Last few miles: planning for the late stage career in science, Julie Gould unpicks some of the generational tensions that can arise in academia when a colleague approaches retirement. Inger Mewburn, who leads research and development training at the Australian National University in Canberra, tells her: “There’…

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A dumpster full of mercury and other things to avoid: lab closures made simple 23:02

3M ago23:02

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In the fifth episode of this six-part podcast series about the late career stage, physicist María Teresa Dova outlines how she is preparing colleagues years in advance to ensure a smooth handover of her lab at the University of La Plata, in Argentina. But in the United States, when the principal investigator leaves it is likely the lab itself will …

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Pension planning and psychosocial support: how institutions can help academics at the late career stage 23:05

3M ago23:05

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The list of things to organize as retirement from academia approaches can feel daunting. In the fourth episode of The last few miles, a six-part podcast series about the late career stage in science, researchers talk about health, housing and financial planning. Carol Shoshkes Reiss, an immunologist at New York University, explains how her institut…

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“Who am I if not a scientist?” How to find identity and purpose in retirement 19:29

3M ago19:29

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Because many scientists see their career as a calling, when retirement arrives it can bring with it feelings of insecurity and worry about what this means for them. Microbiologist Roberto Kolter, emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, is keen to show others that retirement is a joyous time and a chance to broaden one’s scienti…

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Choose your own adventure: navigating retirement after an academic career 20:12

4M ago20:12

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The idea that retirement marks the end of employment and the beginning of a life of leisure is one that many academics feel is outdated. Roger Baldwin, a retired researcher of higher education at Michigan State University in East Lansing and chair of the US Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE), a membership organizati…

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The last few miles: how to prepare for the late-career stage in science 10:56

4M ago10:56

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What are the signs that you’re transitioning from the middle to the late stage of a career in science? Is this transition something you can plan in advance, and if so, what does this look like? Working backwards from your planned retirement date can help you to re-evaluate your priorities and predict the challenges the next few years might bring. B…

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Counting the cost of fashion’s carbon footprint 22:42

4M ago22:42

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In many parts of the world these days garments are bought purely as fashion items, and discarded after just a few months or years. But as the global population grows and personal wealth levels increase, solutions are urgently needed to process increasing volumes of textile waste as consumption rises. This waste includes synthetic fibres, which do n…

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Why female students at an inner London school are seeing scientists in a different light 17:46

4M ago17:46

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Draw a Scientist is a test developed in 1983 to explore children’s perspectives of scientists and how stereotypical views can emerge at an early age, influenced both by popular culture and how STEM subjects are taught in schools. In April, 50 images from Nature’s weekly Where I Work section, a photo essay which depicts an individual researcher at w…

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Using live transport data to deliver sustainable cities 16:53

4M ago16:53

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Lynette Cheah’s research group collaborates with psychologists, computer scientists and urban designers to develop smarter and more sustainable ways of city transportation. “We can’t have sustainable cities without transforming the way people move and how goods are moved around,” says Cheah, an engineering systems researcher who is based at the Uni…

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How artificial intelligence is helping to identify global inequalities 27:10

5M ago27:10

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Francisco Ferreira’s first exposure to inequality of opportunity was during his daily ride to school in São Paulo, Brazil, and seeing children his age selling chewing gum on the streets. Ferreira, a former World Bank economist who now researches inequality at the London School of Economics, speculates on the wasted human talent caused by such hards…

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Infrastructure projects need to demonstrate a return on investment 21:23

5M ago21:23

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Power networks are humankind’s biggest engineering achievement to date, says Sinan Küfeoğlu. But ageing infrastructure in advanced industrialised economies, coupled with the fact that around one billion people in the world lack continuous power access, particularly in Global South countries, could threaten the delivery of Sustainable Development Go…

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Marathon Special Finale 59:56

5M ago59:56

59:56

โดย Elise St Clair

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Decent work for all: why multinationals need a helping hand 15:24

5M ago15:24

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In Kenya, where Moses Ngoze teaches entrepreneurship and management at Masinde Muliro University in Kakamega, micro, small and medium enterprises provide 75% of jobs and more than 80% of the country’s gross domestic product. Typically these organizations employ between one and 100 people and include subsistence farming, hospitality and artisan busi…

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How artificial intelligence is helping Ghana plan for a renewable energy future 23:56

5M ago23:56

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Julien Harou’s career started in geology in his current role as a water management and infrastructure researcher now straddles economics and engineering, with a particular focus on using artificial intelligence (AI) to measure Ghana’s future energy needs. Harou is relatively upbeat about progress so far towards achieving sustainable and reliable en…

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Wolves and Ferrets and Bears, Oh My! 14:01

5M ago14:01

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โดย Elise St Clair

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Should Nature Have Rights? 14:36

6M ago14:36

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โดย Elise St Clair

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What is an Environmentalist? + Bees 14:51

6M ago14:51

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โดย Elise St Clair

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How a young physicist’s job move helped Argentina join the ATLAS collaboration 21:57

6M ago21:57

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María Teresa Dova describes how an early career move to CERN as the first Latin American scientist to join Europe’s organisation for nuclear research ultimately benefited both her but also the researchers she now works with back home in Argentina. The move to Geneva, Switzerland, where CERN is based, required Dova to pivot from condensed matter phy…

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How to plug the female mentoring gap in Latin American science 15:51

6M ago15:51

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A 2021 report by the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean revealed that only 18% of public universities in the region had female rectors. Vanessa Gottifredi, a biologist and president of Argentina’s Leloir Institute Foundation, a research institute based in Buenos Aires, says this paucity of visible…

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‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers 20:12

7M ago20:12

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Fernanda Staniscuaski earned her PhD aged 27. Five years later she had a child. But in common with many scientist mothers, Staniscuaski, a biologist at Brazil’s Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, saw funding and other career opportunities diminish as she combined motherhood with her professional life. “Of course I did not have as much time as…

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Ocean Plastic and Octopus Farming 15:01

7M ago15:01

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โดย Elise St Clair

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‘Hopeless, burnt out, sad’: how political change is impacting female researchers in Latin America 21:07

7M ago21:07

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Paleontologists Ana Valenzuela-Toro and Mariana Viglino outline some of the challenges shared by researchers across Latin America. These include funding, language barriers, journal publication fees and conference travel costs. But the two women then list some of the extra burdens faced by female researchers who live and work there, many of which wi…

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How we connect girls in Brazil to inspiring female scientists 10:45

7M ago10:45

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In 2013 physicist Carolina Brito co-launched Meninas na Ciência (Girls in Science), a program based at Brazil’s Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul. The program exposes girls to university life, including lab visits and meetings with female academics. “There are several girls who have never met someone who has been to university,” says Brita. “…

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Overconsumption 13:47

7M ago13:47

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โดย Elise St Clair

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‘There is no cookie cutter female scientist’ 27:22

7M ago27:22

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In her role as Vice Rector for research partnerships and collaboration at the University of the Valley in Guatemala City, Monica Stein works to strengthen science and technology ecosystems in the Central American country and across the wider region. To mark International Women's Day on 8 March, Stein outlines the steps needed to attract girls into …

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How Tiger Worm toilets could help to deliver clean water and sanitation for all 20:38

8M ago20:38

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Laure Sione’s postdoctoral research at Imperial College London addresses the sixth of the 17 United Nations SDGs, but, she argues, sanitation also plays a huge role in gender equality (SDG 5) and good health and well being (SDG 3) targets. Sione’s PhD research focused on water management challenges in Kathmandu, but she now focuses on Sub-Saharan A…

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Celebrity Private Jets 13:47

8M ago13:47

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โดย Elise St Clair

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How we boosted female faculty numbers in male-dominated departments 20:26

8M ago20:26

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In 2016 the University of Melbourne, Australia, asked for female-only applicants when it advertised three vacancies in its School of Mathematics and Statistics. It repeated the exercise in 2018 and 2019 to fill similar vacancies in physics, chemistry, and engineering and information technology. Elaine Wong and Georgina Such tell the How to Save Hum…

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Building robots to get kids hooked on STEM subjects 19:33

8M ago19:33

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As a child Solomon King Benge loved Eric Laithwaite’s 1974 book The Engineer in Wonderland, based on the mechanical engineer’s 1966 Royal Institution Christmas lectures. After reading it he asked his physics teacher if he and his classmates might try some of Laithwaite’s practical experiments, but was told: “Don’t waste your time with this. This is…

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‘It reflects the society we live in where a young person does not feel that life is worth living’ 28:37

8M ago28:37

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A drive to reduce suicide mortality rates is a key indicator of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Psychiatrist Shekhar Saxena, who led the World Health Organization’s mental health and substance abuse program after working in clinical practice for more than two decades, says that although progress is being made, a worryingly high nu…

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‘Blue foods’ to tackle hidden hunger and improve nutrition 23:55

9M ago23:55

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As a nutrition and planetary health researcher, Christopher Golden takes a keen interest in the second of 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and its aim to end hunger. But Golden’s research also focuses on “hidden hunger,” a term he uses to describe the impact of dietary deficiencies in micronutrients such as iron, zinc, fatty acids, a…

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People need more than cash to rise out of poverty 21:57

9M ago21:57

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Poverty is about more than just meeting basic material needs, says Catherine Thomas. Its corrosive effects are also social and psychological, causing people to feel marginalized and helpless. Thomas’s research into anti-poverty programs has focused on the effects of one aimed at women in the West African country of Niger, which aims to support subs…

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Chandrayaan and what it means for India's brain drain 26:36

10M ago26:36

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In August the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft touched down, making India only the fourth to have successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon. In this special episode of the Working Scientist podcast, Somak Raychaudhuryan astrophysicist and vice-chancellor at Ashoka University, tells Jack Leeming about India’s history of space research, the significance o…

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Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art 32:51

10M ago32:51

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For a three-year period as a postdoctoral researcher, molecular biologist and visual artist Daniel Jay was given both a lab and a sudio to work in. In the final episode of this six-part Working Scientist about art and science, Julie Gould asks why, decades later, Jay’s experience is still unusual. Why do scientists with expertise in, say, music, sc…

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How to create compelling scientific data visualisations 29:56

11M ago29:56

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Data form the backbone of the scientific method, but it can be impenetrable. In the penultimate episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about art-science collaborations, Julie Gould talks to artists and data visualisation specialists about how they interpret and present data in art forms ranging from music to basket weaving. Keep …

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How ChatGPT and sounds from space brought a “luminous jelly” to life 28:05

11M ago28:05

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GUI/GOOEY is an international online exhibition that explores digital and technological representations of the biological world. In the fourth episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about art and science, Julie Gould talks to some of the artists and scientist whose collaborations created exhibits for the event, which ran from Mar…

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Scientific illustration: striking the balance between creativity and accuracy 23:51

11M ago23:51

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In the third episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about art and science, artists and illustrators describe examples where accuracy is key, but also ones where they can exert some artistic licence in science-based drawings, sculptures, music and installations. For Lucy Smith, a botanical artist at London’s Royal Botanic Gardens,…

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The unexpected outcomes of artist-scientist collaborations 23:48

11M ago23:48

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Artist and illustrator Lucy Smith helps botanists to identify new species. Usually they request a set of drawings, she says, with a detailed set of requirements. But Smith, who joined London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, more than 20 years ago, says: “We also feed back to the scientists and say, 'I’ve seen what you’ve asked me to see. But do you kn…

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Art and science: close cousins or polar opposites? 26:13

12M ago26:13

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In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of science and art and asks researchers and artists to define what the two terms mean to them. Like science, art is a way of asking questions about the world, says Jessica Bradford, head of collections and principal curator at the Science Museum…

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Could new ‘narrative’ CVs transform research culture? 31:59

1y ago31:59

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Narrative CVs are increasingly being used by funders to capture how a successful grant application will positively impact society and promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Crucially, the narrative format also acknowledges contributions from citizen scientists, local communities and administrator colleagues. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI…

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How to craft a research project with non-academic collaborators 34:27

1y ago34:27

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In the penultimate episode of this six-part podcast series about team science, Richard Holliman describes a project involving indigenous researchers in Guyana who wanted to limit insecticide spraying without jeopardising the South American country’s efforts to tackle malaria. The early warning system they developed with Andrea Beradi, an environmen…

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“Couldn’t cut it as a scientist.” How lab managers and technicians are smashing outdated stereotypes 33:45

1y ago33:45

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Elaine Fitzcharles, a senior lab manager at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), says the role is sometimes wrongly perceived as someone who “couldn’t cut it as a scientist.” Fitzcharles and her team oversee five BAS research stations, its main facility in Cambridge, UK, and the research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough. Their responsibilities incl…

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Culture clashes: Unpicking the power dynamics between research managers and academics 36:27

1y ago36:27

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Before launching his own consultancy in 2021, Simon Kerridge worked as a research manager in UK academia. “We’re the oil in the cogs,” he says of the role, adding: “Obviously, it’s a service profession, but we have to be careful not to be subservient.” But how empowered do research managers and administrators based in other countries feel, particul…

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This alternative way to measure research impact made judges cry with joy 31:49

1y ago31:49

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The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) collects research outputs from UK universities and is used by the the country’s government to distribute around £2 billion in research funding. But its focus on publications to measure outputs has drawn criticism. The Hidden REF, set up in 2020, looks at alternative measures. Simon Hettrick, its chair an…

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“Just get the admin to do it.” Why research managers are feeling misunderstood 34:32

1y ago34:32

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In the first episode of a six-part podcast series about research culture and team science, research managers Lorna Wilson and Hilary Noone describe how their skills and expertise can help deliver better research outputs, particularly when their contributions are better understood and valued by academic colleagues. Noone, research and innovation cul…

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