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  • New report advises universities to act now on GenAI – and to put human competency at the centre. A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), Being indispensable: Capabilities for…

    Author
    Dr Doug Specht and Professor Gunter Saunders
    Published
    5 March 2026
  • Building Bridges: Maximising support for public investment in science and research. A new paper by research impact specialists at UCL, From investment to outcomes: Capabilities to deliver purposeful public investment in…

    Author
    Sarah Chaytor and Grace Gottlieb
    Published
    19 February 2026
  • New report highlights the potential for artificial intelligence to accelerate the real-world impact of research A new report by HEPI and Taylor & Francis explores the potential of AI to advance translational…

    Author
    Rose Stephenson and Lan Murdock
    Published
    8 January 2026
  • The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) today publishes Advancing Translational Research (HEPI Policy Note 57) with a foreword from Baroness (Margaret) Hodge of Barking. The authors, Lan Murdock, Senior Corporate…

    Author
    Lan Murdock and Rose Stephenson
    Published
    7 November 2024
  • The ‘third space’ describes a group of university staff who can neither be described as academic nor non-academic professional staff. In the context of research, several roles clearly fit into…

    Author
    Jonathan Grant and Tom Kennie
    Published
    8 August 2024
  • This Briefing is for candidates standing in the 2024 General Election and anyone with an interest in higher education policy. It covers the following seven topics: Share this:…

    Author
    Josh Freeman, Nick Hillman and Rose Stephenson
    Published
    27 June 2024
  • Former Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Chris Husbands responds to the financial and policy challenges facing the English higher education by sketching out four different plausible futures: Scenario 1: The evolution of…

    Author
    Chris Husbands
    Published
    6 June 2024
  • In 2023, the British Academy commissioned 11 members of its Early Career Researcher Network to write about their experiences of life and work in UK higher education. The essay collection…

    Author
    Various
    Published
    29 February 2024
  • This report compares the UK’s policies intended to ‘level up’ the research and innovation capacity of regions with those in Germany after unification as well as in the US. The…

    Author
    Jonathan Adams, Jonathan Grant, David Smith and Martin Szomszor
    Published
    18 January 2024
  • In a new HEPI Policy Note, REF2028: Outputs Matter, Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, argues the Research Excellence Framework (REF) is becoming overloaded…

    Author
    Nigel Thrift
    Published
    2 November 2023