Research Matters

Steven Hill

Thinking on research impact, meta research, and whatever else is on my mind.

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    Innovation

  • Three frontiers for public engagement
  • On impact
  • Public good innovation and the free market
  • Lab or factory?
  • The increasing internationalisation of research
  • Supply and demand for innovation
  • Spin out numbers
  • Innovation planet

    • Horizon_scanning

  • Future challenge

    • Public engagement

  • Delivering impact from research needs public participation
  • Three frontiers for public engagement
  • Public and civic engagement
  • Open science and public engagement
  • The drivers shaping the future of research
  • On participation and impact
  • On public engagement with research and activism
  • Public engagement and science advocacy
  • Engaging wisdom from Sciencewise
  • care.data – a failure to engage
  • On blogging and public engagement
  • Debating GM crops
  • Leave science careers to the market?
  • Engaging with Galileo
  • Eight great technology debates
  • Forms of engagement
  • Flying ants and other myths…
  • New questions for science policy

    • Research policy

  • Flying ants and other myths…
  • Text-mining and open access
  • New questions for science policy

    • History

  • Lessons from history: why science policy needs to better understand the past

    • Science_policy

  • Reflections on The Geek Manifesto
  • Lessons from history: why science policy needs to better understand the past

    • Evidence-based-policy

  • Are we ready for more research on research?
  • Reflections on The Geek Manifesto

    • Open access

  • Using Readwise as a commonplace book
  • Open access monographs in the REF
  • Open access and academic progression
  • Open science and public engagement
  • The significance of Sci-Hub
  • Making space for the academic book of the future
  • What is open research?
  • On scholarly monographs and the sciences
  • Open access: because it’s worth it
  • On commonplace books
  • Open access and academic freedom
  • Open access and research assessment
  • On data management and open research
  • Open access roundup
  • What’s coming for UK research policy?
  • On power and open access
  • Text-mining and open access

    • Science

  • Flying ants and other myths…

    • Writing

  • Back to blogging
  • His master’s voice?
  • On blogging and public engagement
  • Reflections on daily blogging
  • The daily pages habit
  • Reasons for writing, according to George Orwell
  • Welcome to the new Testing Hypotheses

    • Review

  • Book review - Inferior by Angela Saini
  • Experiments in blogging
  • Engaging with Galileo
  • ‘People’ by Alan Bennett

    • Quote

  • Massimo Pigliucci on science and culture
  • Lab or factory?
  • Turning up is not enough

    • Funding

  • A post-pandemic research agenda
  • The grand challenges of research need careful investment
  • Measuring disruption in research articles
  • To improve the nation’s productivity, keep investing in university research
  • A paper exploring REF, funding and journal metrics
  • Effect of increased research funding
  • How long does it take to write a research grant application?
  • Some implications of Brexit for UK research
  • Public engagement and science advocacy
  • Venture research and diversity
  • How many research mavericks do we need?
  • Spending on research and welfare
  • Dual funding and the status quo
  • Balance in Dual Funding for Research
  • Eight great technology debates
  • Global research, local benefit
  • What’s coming for UK research policy?

    • International

  • Novelty and international research collaboration
  • International research and national excellence
  • The increasing internationalisation of research
  • Global research, local benefit

    • Research careers

  • The drivers shaping the future of research
  • The many paths to PhD study
  • Leave science careers to the market?
  • On the research career pyramid

    • Evidence-based policy

  • Measuring disruption in research articles
  • Book review - Inferior by Angela Saini
  • On trade-offs
  • How long does it take to write a research grant application?
  • Understanding academic culture
  • Engaging wisdom from Sciencewise
  • Debating GM crops
  • Assessing impact
  • The evidence divide

    • Metrics

  • Four trends shaping the future of research evaluation
  • Journal brand and research culture
  • A paper exploring REF, funding and journal metrics
  • Citations and the attention loop
  • The increasing internationalisation of research
  • The end of journal impact factors?
  • Measured excellence in research
  • Spin out numbers

    • Research quality

  • Expanding ideas of excellence in research
  • Collaboration, competition and culture
  • Novelty and international research collaboration
  • International research and national excellence
  • Excellence in postgraduate education
  • Citations and the attention loop
  • The benefits of basic research
  • Dimensions of quality research
  • How many research mavericks do we need?
  • Three dilemma of research-teaching interactions
  • Balance in Dual Funding for Research
  • The end of journal impact factors?
  • Measured excellence in research

    • Research assessment

  • Virtual peer review panels - the evidence
  • Four trends shaping the future of research evaluation
  • Thinking about CRediT
  • Expanding ideas of excellence in research
  • Collaboration, competition and culture
  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • Anonymous review and the REF
  • The fifth A of assessing impact
  • A paper exploring REF, funding and journal metrics
  • Making space for the academic book of the future
  • Dimensions of quality research
  • Evidencing the REF
  • Questioning research culture
  • Understanding academic culture
  • Assessing impact
  • Open access and research assessment
  • The end of journal impact factors?

    • Dual support

  • How many research mavericks do we need?
  • Scholarship rediscovered
  • Dual funding and the status quo
  • Balance in Dual Funding for Research

    • Journalling

  • The daily pages habit

    • Productivty

  • Lab or factory?
  • The daily pages habit

    • Teaching and research

  • Three dilemma of research-teaching interactions
  • Scholarship rediscovered

    • Universities

  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • Public and civic engagement
  • Open access and academic progression
  • Effect of increased research funding
  • Open access: because it’s worth it
  • Scholarship rediscovered

    • Weekly update

  • Weekly update #6
  • Weekly update #5
  • Weekly update #4
  • Weekly update #3
  • Weekly update #2
  • Weekly update #1

    • Open data

  • A culture of open data
  • What is open research?
  • Openness and research integrity
  • care.data – a failure to engage
  • Open data reflections
  • Open data: technology and culture
  • On data management and open research

    • Open research

  • Disagreements in peer review
  • Open access and academic progression
  • Open science and public engagement
  • A culture of open data
  • The drivers shaping the future of research
  • What is open research?
  • Open access: because it’s worth it
  • On commonplace books
  • Openness and research integrity
  • care.data – a failure to engage
  • Open data reflections
  • Open data: technology and culture
  • On data management and open research

    • Impact

  • Tracing the signals of research impact
  • A post-pandemic research agenda
  • Expanding ideas of excellence in research
  • Delivering impact from research needs public participation
  • Social media and impact
  • The grand challenges of research need careful investment
  • Three frontiers for public engagement
  • The geographic impact of research
  • To improve the nation’s productivity, keep investing in university research
  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • Measuring the benefits of research
  • Open science and public engagement
  • Balancing impact in the REF
  • The fifth A of assessing impact
  • Some implications of Brexit for UK research
  • On participation and impact
  • The benefits of basic research
  • Dimensions of quality research
  • Evidencing the REF
  • Understanding academic culture
  • On impact
  • Assessing impact

    • Research integrity

  • Thoughts on Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
  • Journal brand and research culture
  • Questioning research culture
  • Openness and research integrity

    • Postgraduate

  • Excellence in postgraduate education
  • The many paths to PhD study

    • Research culture

  • Thoughts on Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
  • Four trends shaping the future of research evaluation
  • Text-mining the research literature
  • Thinking about CRediT
  • Journal brand and research culture
  • Expanding ideas of excellence in research
  • Collaboration, competition and culture
  • Book review - Inferior by Angela Saini
  • Effect of increased research funding
  • Making space for the academic book of the future
  • On scholarly monographs and the sciences
  • Questioning research culture
  • Understanding academic culture

    • Equality and diversity

  • Book review - Inferior by Angela Saini
  • Venture research and diversity

    • Scholarly communication

  • Text-mining the research literature
  • Thinking about CRediT
  • Journal brand and research culture
  • Open access monographs in the REF
  • A paper exploring REF, funding and journal metrics
  • The significance of Sci-Hub
  • Making space for the academic book of the future
  • On scholarly monographs and the sciences

    • Admin

  • Reposting HEFCE blog posts
  • Back to blogging
  • Website update

    • Linkpost

  • Thinking about CRediT
  • Social media and impact
  • AI and systematic reviews
  • Public and civic engagement
  • Open access and academic progression
  • Novelty and international research collaboration
  • Effect of increased research funding
  • A culture of open data
  • The significance of Sci-Hub
  • Massimo Pigliucci on science and culture
  • On participation and impact
  • Excellence in postgraduate education

    • Brexit

  • Some implications of Brexit for UK research

    • Europe

  • Some implications of Brexit for UK research

    • Science and culture

  • Massimo Pigliucci on science and culture

    • Policy-making

  • On writing consultation responses
  • On trade-offs

    • Interdisciplinary research

  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • The drivers shaping the future of research

    • Ref2014

  • Delivering impact from research needs public participation
  • The geographic impact of research
  • To improve the nation’s productivity, keep investing in university research
  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • A paper exploring REF, funding and journal metrics

    • Research-on-research

  • Thoughts on Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
  • Tracing the signals of research impact
  • Are we ready for more research on research?
  • Measuring disruption in research articles
  • AI and systematic reviews
  • Novelty and international research collaboration
  • Measuring the benefits of research

    • Hefce repost

  • Open access monographs in the REF
  • Delivering impact from research needs public participation
  • Collaboration, competition and culture
  • The grand challenges of research need careful investment
  • The geographic impact of research
  • To improve the nation’s productivity, keep investing in university research
  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • Anonymous review and the REF
  • Reposting HEFCE blog posts

    • Ref

  • Expanding ideas of excellence in research
  • Open access monographs in the REF
  • Delivering impact from research needs public participation
  • Social media and impact
  • The geographic impact of research
  • Impact learning lessons from the REF
  • Anonymous review and the REF

    • Peer review

  • Disagreements in peer review
  • Virtual peer review panels - the evidence
  • AI and systematic reviews
  • Anonymous review and the REF

    • Productivity

  • To improve the nation’s productivity, keep investing in university research

    • Ai and research

  • Four trends shaping the future of research evaluation
  • Text-mining the research literature
  • AI and systematic reviews

    • Bibliometrics

  • Tracing the signals of research impact
  • Connecting journal articles
  • Connecting journal articles

    • Tools for research

  • Using Readwise as a commonplace book
  • Connecting journal articles