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The response to the global pandemic has demonstrated the huge value of open science, and a united front is needed to accelerate the transition toward this new way of working.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been at the heart of COVID-19 research, providing guidance to decision-makers around the globe.Our institution’s infectious decease modelling team, including Professor Graham Medley who is academic...

Yesterday afternoon, I spent a productive hour with a panel of policy-makers and experts, discussing ‘Levelling up through digital’ and exploring how technology can help brigde the geographical and socio-economic divide.
Joining me in this virtual debate were digital infrastructure minister, Matt Warman, Labour MP Siobhan McDonagh, Helen Milner of the social change charity Good Things Foundation, and Joanna Swash from Moneypenny, a provider of telephone and web-based...

Levelling-up will need three things in the research space: multi-sector access to data infrastructure, better visibility of the research estate and long-range analysis of data to understand success
"On a wide variety of measures, regional disparities in the UK are greater than in most comparable countries." That’s the outcome of a study from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was echoed in the Queen’s speech this week, which unveiled a raft of...

It’s fair to say that the class of 2020/2021 has faced a year of unprecedented disruption. Assessments have been postponed, placements cancelled, and in many cases, study-supporting jobs have been lost.
Last year, a Jisc report, employability rebooted: democratising the future of work, revealed that, in a survey of more than 5,000 final-year students, 29% of students have lost their jobs and 26% have lost their internships, while 28% have had their...