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
Staff complain over ‘arbitrary’ yardstick and teaching-only threat
Akira Orimo and Michael Lisanti absolved from suspicion of research irregularities
A university has asked for a journal paper to be retracted after an investigation found no evidence that the study it described had been carried out.
A fifth regional alliance of research universities has been announced by three institutions in the east of England.
Funds to be available quickly for research into rare, unfolding events
Organometallics and University of Western Australia are reviewing article containing instruction to ‘make up’ data
Too many adjectives and adverbs spoil academic broth, scholar argues
Methodological controversy and a “publish or perish” culture explain why papers from US behavioural studies are more likely to exaggerate findings.
The latest edition of the University of Sydney students’ newspaper has been pulled from sale following concerns that its cover featuring 18 students’ vaginas could break obscenity laws
In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes.
Higher education could face more cuts after next month’s polls, many fear
Dean of medical school who was cleared of misconduct quits after restructure
Rick Rylance has been reappointed chief executive and deputy chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a further four years.
But scholars question motives behind restriction of project studentships
University denies reneging on promise not to penalise staff over issue
Lack of experience of large research budgets won’t harm Hefce chief, say supporters
John Ashdown-Hill says university failed to acknowledge his crucial contribution to discovery of king’s remains
The proportion of PhD students in England expected to obtain degrees has risen slightly, but at some institutions around a fifth may never qualify.
Coventry University’s Madeleine Atkins emerges triumphant from a ‘strong field’ of candidates
The UK funding councils have narrowed the scope of their proposed open access mandate for the post-2014 research excellence framework.
A library-focused effort aims to?take monographs off the analogue shelf
Citations could replace peer review in sciences, study concludes
University criticised for ‘unreasonable’ stance over data-transfer error
