Paul Jump is features and opinion editor. He was previously senior science and research reporter as well as deputy features and opinions editor. He wrote on issues such as research funding, the research councils and the research excellence framework.
He was formerly politics, law and governance reporter for Third Sector magazine, and a freelancer at The Guardian. He has a BPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford and an MA from the University of Edinburgh. He joined THE in May 2010.
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Articles by Paul Jump
Leeds Beckett researchers aim to maximise the impact of their knowledge
Alison Hayman says that she is ‘not incapable’ and her treatment was ‘unjust’
?246 million is big money but it is probably much less than the hit the research budget would take if the REF did not exist, says Paul Jump
Just 13 per cent of open call applications to social science funder were successful in 2014-15
Amid concerns about the growing use – and abuse – of quantitative measures in universities, a major new review examines the role of metrics in the assessment of research, from the REF to performance management
New research grant data show Britain continuing to lead the league
Debate may also consider efficacy of running new framework in tandem with REF
Perception that time should be spent improving research prowess
Head says changes that could lead to 60 redundancies will allow medical school to focus on strengths without harming Welsh healthcare
Institutions pressure Elsevier to permit all Dutch papers to be freely available online by 2024
Information Commissioner orders university to share information with animal rights groups following FoI request
It’s a long way to the top if you want to make it as a PI, but there are many positives on the path to that big break
Women made only 13 per cent of applications to flagship scheme for senior research leaders, council points out
It might be wiser for research funders to make more smaller grants than to pursue policy of giving out fewer but larger awards
Refusal by John Allen to obey instruction from manager at Queen Mary University of London led to his sacking, tribunal rules
An Elsevier analysis explores the viability of a ‘smarter and cheaper’ model
Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt has resigned from his position on a Royal Society committee as well as an honorary UCL professorship
FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London
Lobby group presses the case for UK science in the wake of BIS cuts of almost half a billion pounds
Publisher’s open access policy unleashes public display of disagreement
Scientific and university bodies have reacted warily to the proposed introduction of student loans for doctoral students
Should the foundations of a 21st-century academic career still be built on the traditional model?
Universities, and especially the research elite, faced a choice between aiming for highest quality scores and the greatest number of staff submitted
Young academics cite bullying, pressure to publish and casualisation as downsides of assessment exercise
