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2016. What a year. At the beginning of the year the largest issue we had was what NERC would call their new research ship; by the end all the heroes were dead, climate scientists in the USA are desperately backing up data for fear that the new President will scrub it all, the UK is committing economic suicide and withdrawing into itself, and the one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities

Last week the AHRC announced an exciting link up with Masterchef to take forward its Creative Economy programme. In a move which shocked the sector, the AHRC has appointed Gregg Wallace as its Creative Economy Champion.  'Gregg is the ideal appointment,' gushed a spokesman for the AHRC. 'His focus will be on enhancing and extending the AHRC’s reach in the creative economy, emphasising the

I’ve written before about social media, and about some of the sessions we’ve run on research and social media (such as those led by Nadine Muller and Becky Higgitt), but there seems to be an insatiable appetite amongst academics to understand them better, to participate fully and - in time - benefit from them. The Early Career Researcher Network session in Medway on Wednesday went some way