Students needn't pursue a career in academics to understand the innate value of academic research. It's an invaluable skill — they'll need it. With the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tools, there has ...

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking. That ...

University research is generally funded from the public purse. The results, however, are published in peer-reviewed academic journals, many of which charge subscription fees. I had to use freedom of ...