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
Germany and Eastern Europe rocked by string of high-profile cases within their governments. Paul Jump reports
More than 350 people, including several academics, have signed a petition protesting against the University of Leeds’ treatment of an international postgraduate student
But investigation finds that practice ‘did not always meet’ expected standards
Obama defends discipline from Republican attacks
A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports
Entrepreneurial and academic excellence are pursued side by side, and the dividends are clear to see
Critic says Nature Materials is breaking its own rules
Essex scholar raises fears over peer review integrity
The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.
Paul Manners worries that rush to tell research stories turns academics into salesmen and undermines collaboration
Cardiff calls time on anonymous allegations of past misconduct in dean’s lab. Paul Jump reports
UUK chief looks to impact to save budget from Augean economy
Exceptions in the UK funding councils’ open access policy will be made for researchers hired from abroad, the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s head of research has pledged.
A huge cut to the Australian higher education budget announced just months before the next federal election is the largest since 1996, according to umbrella body Universities Australia.
Strikers are fighting ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic
Report says distribution would change little if based on institutions’ research council income
Cardiff University’s dean of medicine has been cleared of research misconduct but the institution has found a former member of his lab guilty of image falsification in four papers.
The founders of Mendeley have insisted that selling the company to the controversial academic publisher Elsevier will result only in “good things”
Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates.
In a further sign of the growing scientific prominence of data sets, Nature Publishing Group has launched a new open-access platform that will peer review and publish detailed descriptions of their contents.
Australian academics should not be contractually bound always to split their time equally between teaching and research, the vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide has said.
Publication ethics committee issues new guidelines for peer review
Cases of serious cheating fall by 60 per cent, company says
Episciences Project offers new publishing formula
