Dorothy Bishop

Boat changing course to avoid iceberg, illustrating scientific course correction.

Does the glut of retractions mean science is in crisis? Hardly

All we are seeing is a necessary course correction to counter the infiltration of bad actors, say Leslie McIntosh, René Aquarius and Dorothy Bishop

Leslie McIntosh

1月 31日

What can be done to improve research integrity?

As the pandemic increases public scrutiny of science, the UK Parliament is holding another inquiry into the long-running issue of reproducibility. Five of its contributors give their views on how sloppy science can be eliminated and trust be more firmly rooted

Dorothy Bishop

1月 20日

Divergent paths - one direct, the other convoluted, symbolising two approaches to the REF

Is the benefit of the REF really worth the cost?

Simpler options are imperfect but perhaps no more so than the panels’ unavoidably cursory ‘peer review’ of submissions, says Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy Bishop

4月 28日

《自然》的开放获取费似乎高得离谱，但很多人会为它买单

多萝西·毕晓普（Dorothy Bishop）说，学者们仍然执着于声望指标，但同行审稿人可能会认为《自然》期刊在牟取暴利

Dorothy Bishop

12月 1日

Now is a good time for the UK to ditch the REF and the TEF

Both are too resource-intensive to be sustainable during this crisis, and their objectives can be achieved through other measures, argues Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy Bishop

3月 24日

Performance management is performance mismanagement

Research will suffer from the collapse of professional development into financially fixated assessments of ‘capability’, say Gill Evans and Dorothy Bishop

Gill Evans

10月 4日

Academics are keen defenders of the student interest

Dorothy Bishop wishes people would stop reinforcing the idea that universities are places of privilege where the staff sit idly around thinking ‘great thoughts’

Dorothy Bishop

1月 27日

A not-so-fond farewell to universities minister Jo Johnson

Dorothy Bishop will not miss Jo Johnson, but is under no illusions that new minister Sam Gyimah will overturn any of his reforms

Dorothy Bishop

1月 12日

Dorothy Bishop: the costs of the teaching excellence framework

The TEF will divide universities into 'institutional sheep and goats' and then starve the goats, writes Dorothy Bishop on the eve of the HE Bill's second reading

Dorothy Bishop

7月 18日