A forensic anthropologist has contributed to a special report which outlines steps Afghanistan can take to help identify the victims of the country’s 35-year conflict. Gillian Fowler, from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln (UK), has…
How Do Humanities Researchers Manage Information?
Humanities researchers don’t conform to the typical stereotype of the lone scholar, more interested in depth than breadth and collaborating only in dispersed networks. That’s according to a recent Research Information Network (RIN) report on how researchers in the humanities…
UKRO Summarises Horizon 2020 Workshops
The UK Research Office has recently published a series of summaries of consultation workshops on the EC’s next Framework Programme, called Horizon 2020. These workshops are part of the EC’s initial preparations for its proposals on the funding programme, which…
ARMA Conference 2010
This year the annual conference of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) took place in Manchester at the Midland Hotel. It was the largest ARMA conference yet, with 350 delegates from research support offices across the UK Higher…
MRC Calls for Major Rethink on Mental Health Research
The Medical Research Council has called for a strategic rethink on the funding of mental health research in the UK following a major review reported in the Lancet last week. Mental health problems affect 16 million people in the UK…
Changes to ESRC Final Reporting
ESRC have recently written to us to let us know about changes to their final reporting requirements which affect any holders of ESRC grants. Here’s the email in full: From 1st November 2009, the Council’s current requirement for a 5000…