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The first #RPNLive2025 panel session sees UCL’s Graeme Reid, University of Manchester’s Andy Westwood, Case exec director Alicia Greated, N8 director Annette Bramley and the Russell Group’s Stephanie Smith research and inclusive growth.
Welcome confirmation at @ResProfNews conference that @UKRI_News will take steps to strengthen financial resilience of research including making clear where match-funding is not an expectation or requirement for funding.
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Really helpful explainers from @MartinSLewis below.
The measures we have taken today allow us to stabilise universities, target more support to those who need it most and begin the work of reform, to build a system that ends the cycle of students paying more while getting less.
Just to be really clear if you asked me "Is it worth raising max tuition fees by 3.1% to get a 3.1% rise in maintenance loans (both now confirmed)?". My answer is YES.
Tuition fee rises don't effect most 1st time students (unless so wealthy they opt not to get loans), they affect graduates and the only ones who will pay more due to the rise are mid-high to high earning graduates (and only small % more).
The terrible degradation of living loans has hit those from low income backgrounds - who can't afford to live while they study - and thus social mobility. So a rise is important though more is needed to catch up with the huge past years real term cuts.
Explanations below.
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A promising new drug developed by researchers from @UofGChem, @UofGARC and international colleagues could help combat the spread of treatment-resistant malaria.
Read more ➡️ gla.ac/3UF3g63
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Just a couple of days left to apply to join the fantastic @RussellGroup policy team!
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The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network has been selected by @UKRSAvitae to host the 2025 National Postdoctoral Conference, an event with a special focus on the Early Career Researcher journey, at the British Academy on 19 September 2025. Stay tuned for more info.
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Hugely welcome protection of R&D budget has been announced.
WATCH LIVE: Chancellor @RachelReevesMP delivers the Autumn Budget 2024 to the @HouseofCommons. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1OwxWNAQN…
‘Core research’ funding of £6.1bn confirmed - my understanding is that this is defined as @UKRI_News and @ResEngland (not Innovate) funding
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"We need to be alert to the risk that the UK starts to fall behind its world-leading position... R&D is an investment, not a cost".
In @guardian this weekend, Prof Sir Andre Geim and Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell @OfficialUoM urge govt to back research funding for the long term.
Scientific research needs robust government backing, not Treasury penny-pinching | Andre Geim and Nancy Rothwell theguardian.com/commentisfre…
R&D is an investment, not a cost & short-term penny pinching will only harm the economy in the long-term say Nancy Rothwell and Andre Geim: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
We're hiring for a new Policy Manger to lead our research work @RussellGroup - do DM me if interested in finding out more!
We're recruiting for a new Policy Manager to work across our research and innovation policy briefs.
If you have good project management skills and experience of working in policy analysis and development, find out more information and apply by Wed 6 Nov. russellgroup.ac.uk/about/vac…
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📢 Don't miss the @_OxCo_ showcase happening TODAY, with speakers including DSPI colleagues Dr Peter Burr and Dr Isang Awah @GPI_Parenting - find out more ⬇️ #ESRCFestival
🎥 Lights, camera, impact!
🗓️ 23 October: Discover how videos bring social sciences research to life at our "Video for Impact Showcase" with @_OxCo_ and researchers from across Oxford's social sciences - part of the #ESRCFestival
👉Register now at socsci.web.ox.ac.uk/oxco-vid…
I am hopeful that the current Govt, which understands the value of making policy for long-term prosperity, will judge it unwise to undermine the drivers of productivity.
Indeed - a nice reminder in a week when many of us @RussellGroup @UniversitiesUK and key research funders have signed up to a letter from @sciencecampaign arguing to sustain public R&D spending in the U.K. - economic evidence demonstrates the impact it has on productivity growth.
As the letter to @thetimes points out, R&D will be key to the Govt's Industrial Strategy & innovation & economic growth agendas. This is why short-term cuts, which risk long-term scarring of the system, are inadvisable.
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Today @physoc has joined with @sciencecampaign, @wellcometrust @RussellGroup and many UK science organisations in writing to the government ahead of the budget in a couple of weeks. Our joint letter highlights the importance of stable, long term investment in R&D to delivering the Government’s central mission of boosting economic growth.
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We at @wellcometrust have joined many UK science organisations in signing a letter to the chancellor ahead of the budget at the end of the month. It is crucial that the UK has stable, predictable investment in R&D, not wasteful stop-start funding. ft.com/content/fc00e578-f45c… via @ft
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“Multiple sources with knowledge of discussions underway told RPN that with the amount of funding UKRI is already legally committed to next year, a budget squeeze of £1bn could force the agency to stop all spending on new grants in 2025-26.” researchprofessionalnews.com…
