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In November 2018, cOAlition S announced its guidance on the implementation of Plan S, providing further information on how the group expected authors and publishers to comply with its 10 principles for making its funded research Open Access. This guidance was made open for pub...

An overview of the benefits of Society membership - from reduced fees when attending Society meetings and events to acess to the Society's journals, and more.

The government has published its COVID-19 recovery strategy, ‘Our plan to rebuild’ , setting out a series of phases as part of this plan. Phase three recognises the critical importance of accelerating the development of an effective vaccine or treatments. Professor Sir Mun...

The Society includes a diversity of people from all backgrounds for whom we will provide an environment that supports their endeavours, celebrates their achievements, and removes any systemic barriers to their participation. This is embedded in our strategy, which has set the ...

Today, the Health Research Authority (HRA) publishes its new ‘Make It Public’ strategy, setting out an approach to drive transparency and openness in health and social care research. The importance of sharing research openly has been amplified further by the COVID-19 pandemic....

In its recent spending review, the government announced investment of £14.6 billion in R&D in 2021-22, building on commitments to increase public R&D investment to £22 billion per year by 2024-25 and to invest 2.4% of GDP in R&D by 2027. These funding commitments support gover...

The independent regulator of health and social care in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has today published its new strategy , recognising the benefits of clinical research to patient outcomes. The prominence of research in the strategy is welcome and follows discu...

Applications are open to become the next President-elect for the Society, as well as opportunities to join Council as the Industry Trustee and Clinical Trustee.  These roles, which are open for applications from Society members until midday BST on 2 October 2023, will help...