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Navigating ecological civilisation: Polycentric environmental governance and policy regulatory framework in China

Navigating ecological civilisation: Polycentric environmental governance and policy regulatory framework in China

Amidst global environmental and energy crises, China has institutionalized its Ecological Civilisation as a transformative governance paradigm, synergising multiple policy instruments with environmental modernization. This paper utilises Grounded Theory to systematically analyse 56 environmental policies with significant energy governance components.

Improving Impact Infrastructure: Key Predictors of Researchers' Policy Engagement Based on Behavioural Science

Improving Impact Infrastructure: Key Predictors of Researchers' Policy Engagement Based on Behavioural Science

This article presents the first behavioural science-based comprehensive diagnosis of key predictors of policy engagement using the COM-B model, which explains behaviour based on capability, opportunity, and motivation.

Three behavioural science rules for successful AI adoption

Three behavioural science rules for successful AI adoption

Amid Gaza War, Debate Intensifies: is It Wrong to Collaborate with Israeli Universities?

Amid Gaza War, Debate Intensifies: is It Wrong to Collaborate with Israeli Universities?

For European academia, there's perhaps no more burning and divisive question than whether to continue collaborating with Israel. 

Bridging the Gap Between Scientists, Policy Makers and Industry to Build the Quantum Ecosystem

Bridging the Gap Between Scientists, Policy Makers and Industry to Build the Quantum Ecosystem

Elizabeth Pasatembou and Dimitrie Cielecki discuss their experience of doing science policy engagement during their PhDs

Single Rulebook for EU Research Funding Risks 'Death' by Inflexibility, Warns ERC President

Single Rulebook for EU Research Funding Risks 'Death' by Inflexibility, Warns ERC President

A European Commission plan to standardise administrative processes for EU research funding could spell "death," the president of the European Research Council (ERC) has warned. Maria Leptin said that different EU research bodies had different aims and so need flexibility. Standardising their contracts, for example, could put them in a straitjacket. 

'Gold Standard Science' Plans Emphasize Existing Agency Efforts

'Gold Standard Science' Plans Emphasize Existing Agency Efforts

Agency plans to implement Trump's "gold standard science" order explain how long-standing initiatives align with its tenets.

Science is No Longer Above Suspicion

Science is No Longer Above Suspicion

Science is no longer above suspicion. Once trusted as an impartial guide, it is now entangled with politics, corporate agendas and selective narratives - nowher

Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to Chatbots?

Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to Chatbots?

Research, much if it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.

Navigating the chaos: Research community owes better communication to taxpayers

Navigating the chaos: Research community owes better communication to taxpayers

In exchange for continued taxpayer funding, American universities must better explain how research promotes the well-being and security of the public, according to two of the country’s top leaders in science policy.

International Scientific Collaboration is More Necessary - yet More Challenging - than Ever

International Scientific Collaboration is More Necessary - yet More Challenging - than Ever

These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in the United States are putting such collaborations in jeopardy.

As Scientists Raise the Alarm, Trump Administration Attacks Continue

As Scientists Raise the Alarm, Trump Administration Attacks Continue

Between January 20th and August 31st 2025, there have been 479 attacks on science, which undermine, co-opt, or blatantly ignore science in the federal government. These attacks follow the plan laid out in Project 2025.