Lancaster University’s official account. We’re a highly ranked collegiate university with a global reputation for teaching and research
lancaster.ac.uk
A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do.
Official page for Newcastle University UK, a founding member of the Russell Group of Research intensive universities, and a Global Top 140 university.
#WeAreNCL
I read the network news on 40 BBC radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & morris dancer.
Former academic but still a geek.
Husband of
@davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Trustee of
@baysar.bsky.social.
Lancaster, UK.
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Collaboration of the 8 most research-intensive universities in Northern England: Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield & York
n8research.org.uk
Senior Consultant at Research Consulting by day, hobby jogger by night 📃🏃♂️
University of Limerick and UNC Alum
Views and occasional wit are my own.
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We work collaboratively across the universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York, to enable individuals from all backgrounds to thrive within our institutions.
https://whiterose.ac.uk
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Senior editor at Research Professional News, mainly editing European research, innovation and higher education policy news
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We are a programme supporting researchers and academic professionals at N8 Universities
Follow for free training and community events in machine learning, digital humanities, and digital health
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Global Food & Environment Institute, University of Leeds: Addressing global challenges in food security, sustainable development and dietary health through research & innovation.
Emeritus Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics.
www.softmachines.org
North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes
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Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Political Editor Financial Times, former FT bureau chief in Brussels. Presenter R4 Week in Westminster. Crystal Palace and Somerset CCC supporter
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Proud Ballymena Professor. Senior Strategic Advisor at RoRI; Emeritus Prof at Imperial. Former DORA Chair. Husband, father, carer. Also cares about science & equity. Personal a/c. Writes occasionally at
http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/.
Editor-in-chief of Research Professional News (@resprofnews). Research and HE policy, and the odd aside
Executive Chair, Research England UKRI
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Research Consultant
Blue Sky’s first media baron | senior entertainment correspondent at Research Professional News | The Lonely Arts Club podcast | Director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise, Edge Hill University | Twenty-One Media
(Science) journalist and author.
Opinion editor, Research Professional News.
Books: Lost Animals; People Will Talk ; In the Beat of a Heart.
www.johnwhitfield.co.uk 
Award-winning education journalist. Senior editor, Research Professional News. Formerly Times Higher Education.
Non-award-winning musician.
The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
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Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Global HE news, data, insights and events
FT opiner, London. Globalisation, trade, econ, snark. Londoner, northerner, Brit, European. Lister of nouns. RT≠👍. Views own.
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ft.com/trade-secrets.