Rachael Pells was a reporter whose work covered research and research policy, including funding, academic publishing, ethics and misconduct. Separately, she covered higher education across Latin America.
Rachael completed?her MA in journalism at Goldsmiths University, London, and?holds a?BA in English from Oxford Brookes University. She joined Times Higher Education in September 2017, and was previously education correspondent and student editor at The Independent.
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Articles by Rachael Pells
The neuroscientist discusses how she was born into research, her fascination with the human heart, and the joys of drawing graphs
Prison governor-turned-criminologist David Wilson tells Rachael Pells about befriending killers, doing unauthorised research and challenging his students¡¯ preconceptions
Getting stuck for words is not just a plight felt by tortured novelists ¨C here, academics share their top tips for productivity
Budget for 2019-20 promises ?45 million in quality-related support, but universities say more is needed
Indiana Seresin accuses universities of focusing on gender equality at expense of racial justice
UK¡¯s public research funding overseer argues debate over political control of public finances is a ¡®false dichotomy¡¯ and distracts from bigger societal issues
Study backs up earlier findings that women are less likely to ask questions at conferences, even when they are in majority ¨C but that raising awareness of the issue can have a big impact
Younger institutions offer greatest potential for dynamic collaborations, says high commissioner
Economist Lord Jim O'Neill warns political ¡®nonsense¡¯ a barrier to urgently-needed research
Editors say episode demonstrates need for humans to review work of software
Sector leaders question why it has taken so long to address long-running decline in value of quality-related research funding
Nearly one in five respondents to four-campus study said they feared role change if they underperformed
Wen Hai, head of Peking University HSBC Business School¡¯s Oxford outpost, says venture will help foster collaboration between Britain and China
Analysis of more than 120 million academic publications since the beginning of the 19th century shows more is more as academics compete for attention
Chris Skidmore tells peers he hopes for announcement soon but acknowledges that UK is ¡®in a very strange place politically¡¯
Despite the turmoil racking Venezuela and Brazil, there are bright spots in Latin America¡¯s higher education landscape. Rachael Pells reports
UCL vice-provost warns that universities' ability to cross-subsidise grants is declining
Preliminary data show 99 out of 100 patents citing hypothetical examples did not make their prophetic nature clear
¡®Reviewer 2¡¯ is blamed by many academics for much of the stress and anxiety of publication ¨C but the fightback is under way
Last year¡¯s scandal over the ministerial vetoing of Australian research grants coincided with the centenary of the fabled principle that politicians should keep out of such decisions. But with governments becoming increasingly ideological and desperate for innovation-fuelled growth, does scientific autonomy have a future? Rachael Pells investigates
Adam Ginsburg is fighting conference-induced lethargy by tackling high levels of carbon dioxide at academic gatherings ¨C one window at a time
Federally funded academics would have been required to seek president¡¯s authorisation to go abroad
Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies
Shifting towards open access journals will only achieve so much when review and editing processes take so long, scientists say
