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Pandemic PhD to prospects PhD
Hello, my name is Danni and I’m a third-year PhD student in the School of Water, Energy, and Environment specifically within the Soil, Agrifood and Biosciences department. My PhD focuses on how biostimulants (seaweeds, ...
Introducing… Sage Research Methods
Starting your thesis or research project? Struggling with your research methodology? Once you decide what data you need to collect for your project, you need to research the best techniques to collate and analyse it. Your ...
A year at Cranfield
The start of April 2023 marked a year since I began my PhD in plant molecular biology at Cranfield. My project focuses on bringing academic research into a commercial setting, which, as an applied ...
New IEEE route to gold open access for UKRI-funded research
You probably know by now that if you publish a paper that acknowledges funding from UKRI (including Innovate UK) it must be made open access immediately upon publication with a CC-BY licence. To remind you, ...
Publishing gold open access without a fee – even when your paper doesn’t acknowledge a funder!
If you are suffering from ‘email fatigue’ following our campaign to ensure that papers acknowledging UKRI funding will meet their new open access policy, you may have missed some great news: you can publish gold ...
The eBook crisis and how it affects academic staff
Libraries in the HE sector are facing significant issues when trying to buy eBooks. The problems with purchasing models have existed for a while but have got much worse since the pandemic, when the reliance ...