The European Commission has issued a press release which details plans for a new international ranking for universities, to be known as U-Multirank. Universities will be invited to sign up for the new ranking in early 2013, and the first…
Rome research awards
The British Academy’s British School at Rome invites applications for its Rome research awards. These awards support research on the archaeology, art history, history, society and culture of Italy, from prehistory to the modern period. The following awards are available:…
Upcoming HEA Funding Opportunities
HEA travel funds available to staff and student applicants The HEA’s UK travel fund for 2012/13 enables staff and students in UK higher education to exchange and disseminate good practice in learning, teaching and assessment and engage with peers. The…
‘Transforming’ Social Science – Transformative Research Call
This new pilot call for up to £250,000 aims to provide a stimulus for genuinely transformative research ideas at the frontiers of social sciences and to trial a mechanism that enables research which challenges current thinking to be supported and…
NESTA Digital Makers Call for Proposals
NESTA and Nominet Trust, in partnership with Mozilla, have recently announced an open call for ideas to significantly increase the number of young people who participate in digital making activities. The funders are looking to support initiatives that invite mass participation…
Sleeping pills owe half their benefits to placebo effect, study finds
Half of the benefit of taking sleeping pills comes from the placebo effect, according to a major new study published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers re-analysed results from more than a dozen clinical trials of the most common type…