Postgraduate funding is an issue for all universities, since most have taught – or master's – courses, if not big research programmes.
"We must learn to embrace uncertainty", new female PIs get less money and staff and voilà: EU's biggest research programme ever takes shape.
The inputs of these stakeholders will play some role in revising the Commission's policy and are particularly important for the ongoing negotiations on the next big EU research programme Horizon 2020, where about 25-30 billion Euros would be available for academic research.
CareKit is the follow-up to ResearchKit, which allows medical researchers to build big data research programmes around iOS.
A big new European research programme has begun to look at the possibility of a single-pilot flight deck for commercial operations.
Partly, I suspect, they are still in thrall to the bigger-is-better axiom: a big, highly successful research programme enhances a medical school's prestige and helps to attract students, faculty, patients and philanthropic donors, so schools with big, prestigious research establishments consider it impolitic to admit that research labs don't enhance medical education very effectively.
In the biggest ever such research programme, funded by the Department of Health policy research programme and published in the British Medical Journal Quality and Safety, we used observations, interviews, archival data, surveys and national data sets to study acute, mental health, ambulance and primary care across the whole of England.
Giving interviews can benefit a research programme, too.
Among participating countries in Horizon 2020, the EU's flagship research programme, the UK holds the biggest share of signed grant agreements.
Last week, Brin, who now lives in a big house on the southern peninsula of San Francisco, announced he is investing unspecified millions of the profits in a research programme into Parkinson's disease.
