HEPI’s hybrid Policy Briefing Day is on 27 April 2022 and institutions that support HEPI are entitled to a free place. This blog was written by Dr James Riley, a science studies scholar and an early-career researcher at the University of Birmingham. James is on Twitter @JamesIRiley. If you get a group of…
HEPI’s hybrid Policy Briefing Day is on 27 April 2022 and institutions that support HEPI are entitled to a free place. This blog was written by Professor Iyiola Solanke, Chair in EU Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds and Chair of the Unite Students Commission on Living Black at…
This blog was contributed by Dr John Cater, Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University. Two years ago, every night at 5pm, we were listening to a prevaricating Prime Minister flanked by the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Officer. And every morning, at every university, the senior team tried to…
This blog was contributed by Nishan Canagarajah, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester. In celebrating its past, the University of Leicester has found inspiration for its future mission. Levelling up, equality of opportunity, and geopolitical stability –these are all Government priorities of today which compare with those of the post-First…
The sixth in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Dr Matthew Vince, HE Enterprise and Employability Coordinator, and Thea Jones, Deputy Head of Higher Education, at the University Centre South Devon. With the steady expansion of approaches to employability, there has been increasing concern about the extent to which employability should be…
This blog was kindly contributed by Marco Cavallaro, a doctoral student at the University of Lugano in Switzerland. In the second year of the Horizon Europe programme, the United Kingdom (UK) is still not formally associated with the largest research and innovation funding programme in the world. Although they remain…
Kate Allan is a Principal Associate at Mills & Reeve LLP. In 2018, I was lucky enough to spend some time volunteering in Calais with organisations supporting refugees there. At that point in their journey, the refugees were away from the danger that had caused them to flee their homes,…
Andreas Fulda is Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham and author of The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (Routledge, 2020). In Germany, a public debate about the current state of China studies has erupted. Rivalling op-eds appeared in…
This blog was written by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. Sonita Gale’s new documentary, Hostile, is currently touring selected UK cinemas, with some viewings including a question-and-answer session with Gale and Sonali Naik QC, who supports migrants fighting deportation. Hostile narrates the stories of a Windrush migrant; a younger couple who…
The fifth in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by the University of Derby’s Dr Val Derbyshire (Impact Officer), Dr Laurice Fretwell (Course Director: Human Sciences), and Dr Caroline Harvey (Senior Lecturer). Introducing the Big College Challenge Prior to the formation of the College of Science and Engineering during the 2020/21…