Leila Sattary http://www.leilasattary.com freelance science writer Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:05:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Research council to pick favourites to receive UK chemistry funding – Chemistry World http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/research-council-to-pick-favourites-to-receive-uk-chemistry-funding-chemistry-world/ http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/research-council-to-pick-favourites-to-receive-uk-chemistry-funding-chemistry-world/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:47:58 +0000 admin http://www.leilasattary.com/?p=643 The UK’s largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of ‘national importance’. This new direction, which the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) describes as ‘shaping capability’, will squeeze certain chemistry sub-disciplines in favour of others and limit the role of peer review in funding decisions.

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]]> http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/research-council-to-pick-favourites-to-receive-uk-chemistry-funding-chemistry-world/feed/ 0 REF looks to help academics who take a career break – Chemistry World http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/ref-looks-to-help-academics-who-take-a-career-break-chemistry-world/ http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/ref-looks-to-help-academics-who-take-a-career-break-chemistry-world/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:11:11 +0000 admin http://www.leilasattary.com/?p=611 The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has released it guidelines detailing how universities will be assessed in the upcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF), which will help to determine how much funding institutes receive. In the Assessment Framework and Guidance on Submission for the 2014 REF, the funding councils have outlined the final criteria and specific data and narratives required for submissions. The new guidance also aims to encourage universities to place more value on researchers who have taken a career break or returned to academia from industry.

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]]> http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/ref-looks-to-help-academics-who-take-a-career-break-chemistry-world/feed/ 0 Pharma grinding to a hault? – Euroscientist http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/pharma-grinding-to-a-hault-euroscientist/ http://www.leilasattary.com/2011/07/pharma-grinding-to-a-hault-euroscientist/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:46:24 +0000 admin http://www.leilasattary.com/?p=637 More evidence recently published by the 2011 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook indicates that the pharma industry’s productivity is continuing to decline. Fewer new molecular entities were launched in 2010 than in any other year in the past decade. The number of drugs entering Phase I, II and III clinical trials is also declining. R&D expenditure has also dropped to a three year low of $68 billion.

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