The Independent Review of Research Bureaucracy led by Adam Tickell, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birmingham, has today released its report.
Spanning a swift 63 pages no words are wasted in a report which is largely about wasted words.
Bureaucracy: hard to spell and hard to stop
To take a step back it’s important to consider what research bureaucracy is and where it comes from.
The research system has a dizzying array of actors within it. There are researchers who are parts of universities, universities who can work on their own or with partners both national and international and there are funders who fund the work of researchers through universities.
