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Dr Gemma Horton appointed to European Commission's Expert Group against SLAPPs

Dr Horton, Impact Fellow for the Centre for Freedom of the Media, will join a prestigious group to advise the European Commission to legislate against Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation.
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New report uncovers differences in integrating EDI in UK and South African universities' guidelines on Generative AI

A recent report by researchers from the University of Sheffield and the University of Cape Town highlights uneven distribution of institutional guidelines on the use of Generative AI in education, and differences in the ways they discuss EDI.
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Dr Dani Madrid-Morales appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of prestigious Journal of Communication

Dr Dani Madrid-Morales, Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication, has been appointed as one of a new team of co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication.
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How to speed up peer review - research co-led by Prof Stephen Pinfield featured in Nature and Science

The experimental ‘Distributed Peer Review’ system more than doubles the speed of reviewing grant applications, and has been featured in the two journals’ news sections after being presented at the MetaScience 2025 conference.
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Prof Mike Thelwall wins grant to use large language models to predict reviewer scores for grant proposals

Professor Thelwall will lead the UKRI Metascience Sandpit grant to assess whether it is reasonable to give large language models any role in the peer review of grant proposals.
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Dr Susan Oman and Dr Irini Katsirea appointed members of the DCMS College of Experts

Dr Susan Oman and Dr Irini Katsirea have been appointed members of the UK Government’s Department of Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) College of Experts to apply innovative scientific methods to support government policy.
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Using AI to understand violence against journalists

Professor Jackie Harrison and Dr Diana Maynard gave a presentation entitled 'Towards a journalist risk barometer using AI to understand contextual predictors of violence' at the World Press Freedom Day Academic Conference.