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
The gap between the salaries of workers with postgraduate degrees and those holding only undergraduate degrees has grown significantly, a study has shown.
Applicants for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grants will have to identify the national importance of their research for up to 50 years in the future.
Top researchers in biology have yet another publishing option following the launch of a major open-access journal by the Royal Society.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has declined to mothball its controversial shaping capability policy but agreed to work more closely with learned societies on implementing it.
Movement demands increase in low levels of state investment in the academy. Paul Jump reports
The merging of two prestigious fellowship schemes could set a new global standard in support of early-career independent researchers, it has been suggested.
The new head of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has "an understanding of academic research, which his predecessor sadly lacked", a senior academic has said.
Researchers should not feel obliged to pursue research favoured by prestigious journals, David Willetts has said.
The research councils might never recoup the money they have spent on the troubled Shared Services Centre, the National Audit Office has warned in a critical report.
The business world's "counter-intuitive" failure to capitalise on the UK's ever-increasing research excellence needs to be addressed by the government, the author of a report into UK research has said.
Douglas Kell was a whizz at landing grants. Now he is the one handing them out. Paul Jump reports
The UK research base is the most productive in the world but its position could be threatened by relatively low investment, a government-commissioned report warns.
The status and influence of chief scientific advisors varies wildly across government, with many advisors lacking sufficient independence, oversight, or ministerial access to properly fulfil their briefs.
Keith Mason is to step down as chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council five months earlier than scheduled.
The government and the research councils have rejected suggestions that the UK needs a specific body to police research integrity.
Begun as a counterweight to journal impact tables, Faculty of 1000 starts its own. Paul Jump writes
Suspended academic launches own investigation and decries 'smear campaign'. Paul Jump reports
The use of bibliometric data to assess humanities scholars could become more widespread with the launch of a citation index of academic books.
The University and College Union has urged the UK funding councils to allow female academics to submit one fewer output to the research excellence framework for each pregnancy they have had during the census period.
Short-term contracts and a lack of permanent openings risk causing long-term damage to UK academic science, a report prepared for David Willetts warns.
Funding council chief's no-show to defend policy 'beggared belief'. Paul Jump reports
Universities' efforts to collect impact case studies for the 2014 research excellence framework may be in full flow, but uncertainty and confusion still abound.
