Challenging NHS England's individual funding request policy

REU Supplemental Funding Request : An Information Flow Analyzer for Java

Context. This proposal is for an undergraduate summer research project on secure information flow in Java programs. The work will support ongoing research of David Naumann and Anindya Banerjee in our CyberTrust project entitled “CT-ISG Collaborative Research: Access Control and Downgrading in Information Flow Assurance.” This REU request is under Naumann’s award, CNS-0627338, and Naumann will s...

BACKGROUND PAPER Funding pressures in the NHS: an ethical response

David Oliver: Challenging the victim narrative about NHS doctors.

In July, I posted some tweets arguing that doctors still have high professional status, public respect, secure and relatively well paid careers, and a great deal of hard power and soft influence. I said that doctors shouldn’t describe themselves using the language of hapless, impotent victims of the state. Plenty of doctors agreed with me, often those who had taken on difficult service leadersh...

Testing Theories of Policy-Making: Educational Funding

1 Policy-making is an essential part of every government. Each government must enact policies based on their own philosophies, backgrounds, and situations. Many governments develop very similar tendencies in policy-making while other governments have quite different tendencies about policy-making. Through looking at the different trends of policy-making in multiple countries, there are multiple...

Science funding and science policy: Big data as a tool for supporting the research funding process

ÜberResearch pursues a comprehensive approach to big and small data to aid science funders in operations and analysis. We seek to consolidate global award data and funders’ internal data, with a focus on data harmonization, natural language processing and disambiguation. In this article, firstly, I give a definition and some examples of big data. Next, I look at the relevance of big data in sci...