Three eminent climate scientists have given evidence to the Committee for Academic Freedom of what they claim is a bias in top scientific institutions against any research that does not support mitigation of climate change in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is a major…
On 6th October, the period of further consultation for the Research Excellence Framework 2028 closed. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is an assessment of British Higher Education Institutions. It takes place once every seven years, and determines how much funding universities receive. The REF assesses universities according to how…
Monday 2nd October marked the first day of Professor Jo Phoenix’s Employment Tribunal against the Open University. Professor Phoenix is a highly respected criminologist, formerly Dean at Durham University and Chair of Criminology at the Open University. Professor Phoenix believes that biological sex cannot be changed, and has published research…
Dr Patrick Brown, an American scientist, and co-director of the Breakthrough Institute’s Climate and Energy Team, recently published a paper in the world’s leading academic science journal Nature. Brown’s paper showed that increases in temperature since the industrial revolution are responsible for a 25% increase in the risk of wildfires…
Dr Jenny Bulstrode, an academic at University College London (UCL) and previously Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, is being investigated for academic malpractice. Dr Bulstrode published an article in the journal History and Technology. In it, she argues that Henry Colt, one of the most important figures of the…