Research excellence

Deep dives into university research practices around the world, including supervision, community engagement, funding and publication

By Eliza.Compton, 4 December, 2023
What is best practice for universities’ public engagement? How do you enlist the public in your research? And how do you keep them interested in the long term? Two 2022 THE Awards winners share their insights – from their experiences tracking Covid and decoding Dickens
By Eliza.Compton, 30 November, 2023
Funding is a relationship of sorts. You and your research project funder will enter into a finite symbiosis. It’s a joyful, exciting, uncomfortable and occasionally scary co-dependency, writes Laura Berrisford
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 29 November, 2023
The route to a PhD by published works requires a different approach to supervision. Here, Alison Brettle provides aspects to consider based on her experience conducting, supervising and developing institutional guidance
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 28 November, 2023
PhD researchers should be given space to work independently, share their results and test their own limits with the support of supervisors who see them as people first and scientists second, explains Hannah Cloke
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 20 November, 2023
Tailored communication, supervision and technology can give distance-learning postgraduate researchers the same sense of belonging as their on-campus counterparts. Here, Richard Thomas offers ways to close the gap
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4minutes