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James Wilsdon

  • Digital Science Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield
Sheffield
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Covers:  Science policy, research policy, innovation policy, research funding
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James Wilsdon is Digital Science Professor of Research Policy at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), a global consortium of research funders, academics and technologists working to advance transformative & translational ‘meta-research'. He is also vice-chair of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA).

An interdisciplinary social scientist, he works on the politics, governance and management of research systems, and the …

James Wilsdon’s Journalist Portfolio

James Wilsdon articles for The Guardian

James Wilsdon articles for The Guardian

Mostly articles written for the Guardian's "Political Science" blog, which ran from 2013-2018 and covered the…

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Churn, not crisis, for UK science

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By Tianyu Zhu, Thomas Cottle, Anna M. Puszynska, Geraint Rees, James Wilsdon
| Science Magazine Verified
Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share When Andy Burnham became the United Kingdom’s prime minister last week, among his first acts was to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), folding it into a new superministry for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. The science minister, Patrick Vallance, stepped down the same day.
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What the sudden demise of the UK’s department of science means for the future of research Original

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By James Wilsdon
| The Conversation Verified
The obituaries were being written before the body was cold. Within hours of Prime Minister Andy Burnham confirming that Whitehall’s responsibilities for science and technology would be absorbed into a new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (DBIST), Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, was on Radio 4 warning that “science isn’t a slave to business”. The trade association TechUK declared it “the wrong change at the wrong time”.
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Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?

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By Geraint Rees, James Wilsdon
| Flipboard
10 hours ago I’m sure you’ve heard this before: “AI won’t replace people. People who use AI will replace people who don’t.” No one is sure who (if anyone) said it first, perhaps Sam Altman or Jensen Huang. But since it became clear that the AI revolution is truly underway, it’s become a familiar phrase. As a …
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