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
Unionised academics at the University of Birmingham have voted to strike over threatened compulsory redundancies and “aggressive” management tactics.
The lack of clarity over Research Councils UK’s new open access policy is “unacceptable” and government ministers should learn lessons from the confusion, according to a House of Lords report.
Canadian company Lashzone sent mass emails to UK universities in bid to establish ‘secret’ franchises on campuses
A bill has been introduced into the United States Congress that would require most papers describing publicly-funded research to be made open access within six months of publication.
‘Summer reading lists’ no basis for policy, says don
Open-access publishing, once a niche preoccupation, is now a hot-button issue. But concern is growing that unintended consequences of new publication mandates will cost individual scholars and the UK sector dear. Paul Jump reports
Swiss poo paper comes up smelling of roses
Policy continues to worry academics despite research councils’ concession
The University of Huddersfield has unveiled pioneering plans to raise funds for scholarships by lending money to small businesses.?
Male scholars more likely to succumb to temptation as pressure to publish increases. Paul Jump writes
RCUK has announced it will not enforce its stated embargo periods for green open access during the first five years of its new open-access policy.
Academics at the University of Birmingham will be balloted over strike action in protest at what a union has described as the institution’s “campaign of forced redundancies and aggressive management tactics”.
V-c keen to match Loughborough’s sports prowess with broad disciplinary strength.
The publisher Sage has slashed the price of publishing in its flagship open-access journal to just $99 (?63) in the wake of concern about whether researchers in the humanities and social sciences will be able to afford to comply with the UK’s new open-access mandates.
Rise in staff submissions predicted despite tightened funding formula. Paul Jump reports
Essay-writing firm denies inconsistency in its director penning satirical novel. Paul Jump reports
The number of academics submitted to the research excellence framework is likely to exceed the number submitted to the last research assessment exercise, new figures suggest.
The UK’s move towards open-access publishing will inevitably place some learned societies’ journals into financial jeopardy, according to the chair of the committee that recommended making the transition.
The Reverend Peter Neil has been appointed the next vice-chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University, one of ten specialist institutions recently awarded university title.
Call for European Union to establish output-tracking database. Paul Jump reports
Nanoscientist waits three years to see critique of controversial ‘discovery’ printed. Paul Jump writes
The proportion of staff submitted by each unit of assessment to the 2014 research excellence framework will become clear for the first time after the Higher Education Statistics Agency announced it will release statistics on the number of academics eligible to be submitted.
