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Research
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HERO - Research
These pages describe the UK research system and those who fund it. This includes academic research and university research problems, outputs and successes, associated processes (funding, training, methodologies and ethics) plus centres of excellence and research activities.

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Contract research
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Essential reading for those interested in pursuing contract research opportunities and those currently working as researchers.
Research Excellence Framework (REF)
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DIUS abandons plans for different REF systems to judge sciences and arts and delays the timetable by a year
Research outcomes
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A comprehensive guide to the key achievements of UK research teams.
Good research practice
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Guidelines on best practice for researchers in ensuring that their work is carried out ethically and with integrity.

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RAE 2008
RAE 2008
The long-awaited 2008 RAE results are published
Chemical century
Fritz Haber: improved munitions ‘would shorten the war’
A hundred years ago, a German chemist filed a patent which would change the course of history
HiPER drive
Powerful idea: the proposed HiPER facility may be built in the UK
Planning has begun for the next stage in fusion research – though useful power is still some decades away
How froghoppers hop
Froghopper: catapult leap to heights of 70 cm
Zoologists have cracked the secrets of nature’s champion high-jumpers
Moving in circles
Ideas in Transit
Transport users share ideas on how to cope with the UK’s transport problems
On to the rocks
Early venture capitalist: ‘Buccaneer of the Caribbean’ from Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates
Did modern-day pirates create the credit crunch?
Green and pleasant land?
Drier world: plots at Silwood Park simulate future rainfall patterns
How will English fields adapt to a century of climate change?
Supersonic speed limits
Shockwaves: Bloodhound’s extreme aerodynamics are a daunting engineering challenge
UK universities are driving the science behind a new assault on the land speed record – the world’s first 1000mph car
True stories
Things fall apart – a truer picture of Africa’s development dilemmas?
To get to the heart of development issues, sometimes a novel is what you need
What infants learn
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Life chances for many are determined by the age of 10 – how can cycles of deprivation be broken?
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