Julia Gillard, the former Prime Minister of Australia, has been appointed as the next Chair of Wellcome. She will will succeed Eliza Manningham-Buller, who is stepping down from the role in April 2021.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has announced that Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS will join UK Research and Innovation as its new Chief Executive. She will succeed Sir Mark Walport who announced in September last year that he would retire in 2020. Professor Leyser will start her new role on Monday June 29.

Poll finds 64% of voters more likely to listen to expert advice as 51% say they have seen fake news about virus

The British government publishes the names of 50 members of the experts' group - but the list is incomplete.

Global recession may make public and policymakers think more about those 'at the bottom of society', says social policy academic.

Instead of supporting the 54% of staff on insecure contracts, many managers are using the pandemic to sack them.

DELVE: Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics is a multi-disciplinary group, convened by the Royal Society, to support a data-driven approach to learning from the different approaches countries are taking to managing the pandemic.

It was on Wednesday, March 11 that some of the experts on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies began to realise that the coronavirus was spreading through the UK too fast for the NHS to cope.

Consultant Mark Gallagher can't understand why the NHS is not testing its staff for coronavirus.

Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change

This new meeting at the Wellcome Genome Campus will bring together an international audience of researchers motivated to improve the robustness of scientific research.

Academics are warning that universities restrict their freedom by surveilling social media posts.

Academics say case of Dr Asiya Islam, turned down after 10 years in UK, gives the lie to assurances Britain is open to experts.

Top scientists to be given fast-tracked entry into the UK.

The British government hails the UK as "open to the most talented minds" with quicker route in for scientists.

Mauro Ferrari joins EU organisation at a delicate moment but says his focus is on identifying 'breakthrough people'.

Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes.

Conservative MPs have voted against an amendment that would have required the government to negotiate continuing full membership of the EU's Erasmus+ programme, which helps students study in other countries.

The UK prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings wants scientific approaches to inform government - but researchers worry his view is simplistic.

Economic and Social Research Council may provide four years of PhD funding amid concerns over stress caused by three-year model

Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.