This blog was kindly provided by Professor Andrew Linn, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Westminster. On 19 May 2022 I wrote a blog for HEPI, reflecting on the recently-announced results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021). The question then was whether it had been a good REF and what we might…
This blog was contributed by Fergus Green, Senior Climate Campaigns Coordinator at student campaigning charity People & Planet. On 28 September 2022, Birkbeck, University of London was announced as the first UK higher education institution to end fossil fuel industry recruitment on campus. This decision, which arose from in-depth dialogue…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Kevin Kerrigan, Pro Vice-Chancellor Business and Enterprise, Sheffield Hallam University. It is the second in our series of blogs on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). We live in interesting times While the terror of the ‘demographic dip’ may have…
The European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon Europe, will soon start its third year but UK participation remains uncertain. This uncertainty, arising originally from the outcome of the Brexit referendum and now prolonged by the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol, has led to less participation in EU-funded…
In Horizon Europe and Plan B research funding: Turning adversity into opportunity (HEPI Policy Note 38), Marco Cavallaro of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland argues full association with Horizon Europe remains preferable but provides a checklist for making Plan B work, including: incentivising the participation of less well-resourced UK universities in European research…
Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. Jiteen Ahmed, Head of Technical…
This blog was kindly contributed by Anthony McClaran, GuildHE Chair and Vice-Chancellor of St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Small and specialist universities have long been anchors within their communities and specific sectors in the economy. Frequently located in smaller towns, on the edge of cities, or in rural or coastal locations,…
This blog was kindly contributed by Susanna Kalitowski, Head of Policy at University Alliance. After a sweltering summer that ended abruptly with a new Prime Minister and the death of a monarch, we find ourselves in uncharted territory. With a recession looming and millions on the brink of poverty due to rocketing…
HEPI, in conjunction with the UPP Foundation and the University of Sussex, is hosting events at both the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences on ‘Student Access and Success: What works?’ For further information, see the Events page of the HEPI website here. This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Sasha Roseneil,…
Over the next 10 weeks, HEPI will be running a series of leadership blogs in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). For more than 10 years, NCEE have run leadership development programmes for higher education to support creativity, innovation and the management of change. The first blog…