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.
Paul can be found tweeting at
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Articles by Paul Jump
The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Israeli researcher Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals.
The government has announced nearly ?200 million in new science capital spending which it hopes will cement the UK’s status as “home to the greatest scientists and engineers”.
Highly productive sector must be creative to keep up without new funds, study says. Paul Jump reports
Women in their forties and early fifties are the least satisfied among principal investigators with the way they are treated by their universities, a survey has found.
Three European funding agencies have signed an open access funding agreement with journal publisher Wiley-Blackwell.
Six leading scientific bodies, including the Royal Society, have urged the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to reconsider its controversial “shaping capability” measures.
Nobel prize forecasts for 2011 utilise highly referenced 'citation laureates'. Paul Jump reports
EU-funded project will develop affinities between institutions on two continents. Paul Jump reports
The Medical Research Council's success rate for grant applications has declined by another percentage point, in spite of a drop in applications and real-terms protection for its budget.
Department's first scientific chief sets out his stall firmly in the middle of the road. Paul Jump reports
...but some question the focus and quality in plans to add more than 800,000 places, writes Paul Jump
Academics with a hankering to shine on radio now have their opportunity. Paul Jump reports
Universities' reputations could suffer if undergraduates perceive that the institutions are leaving teaching to "an insufficiently trained, inappropriately paid and poorly motivated workforce of teaching assistants", according to a new study.
The EPSRC's steady rise in grant approval rates continues, but at what cost? Paul Jump reports
King’s College London has re-opened its chemistry department eight years after concluding that it was unsustainable.
The council's latest grant application figures raise questions about its future. Paul Jump reports
Synthetic organic chemists and mathematicians appeal to Cameron over cuts. Paul Jump writes
The number of researchers employed on fixed-term contracts is declining - but the average length of the contracts is also getting shorter.
Imperial College London has announced it is reviewing the award of a PhD to a former student after it emerged that the paper that formed the basis of his thesis is to be retracted.
Analysis reveals higher rates of withdrawn research papers for top science journals. Paul Jump reports
The closure of the Natural Environment Research Council's small grants scheme could reduce its overall applications-to-awards success rate, the council has admitted.
Cut cost of accessing research catalogues or lose RLUK business, publishers told. Paul Jump reports
Now is the time to improve and expand facilities, Sheffield faculty head tells Paul Jump
