Where power meets consequence.
Faultlines is a platform examining the forces reshaping research, innovation and institutional power.
We investigate what is changing, why it matters,
and what decision makers should do next.
SYSTEMS/
POWER/
ACCOUNTABILITY
HOW WE WORK
From signal to substance.
FAULTLINES follows a deliberately rigorous editorial process; identifying emerging questions, testing assumptions and turning complex evidence into useful analysis
01
IDENTIFY
Find the faultline
We identify the tensions, shifts and unanswered questions shaping research, innovation and institutional life.
02
INVESTIGATE
Follow the evidence
We draw on research, data, expertise and primary sources to understand what is actually changing.
03
CHALLENGE
Test the argument
We interrogate assumptions, competing explanations, and the interests behind conventional narratives.
04
DISTIL
Make Complex Ideas Useful
We turn extensive research into clear, rigorous analysis that can be understood and acted upon.
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PUBLISH
Put it into the public domain
We publish research, commentary and conversations to advance better questions and better decisions.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND FAULTLINES
Brought together by design
FAULTLINES brings together practitioners, policy thinkers and researchers with a shared interest in understanding what sits beneath the surface of public debate.
Dr Natalie Cozier
Founder & Editorial Lead
Dr Natalie Cozier MRSC has spent more than two decades working inside university research and innovation systems — leading knowledge exchange strategy, delivering national infrastructure, and developing an £8m Office for Students and UKRI-funded talent pipeline and access programme. She has founded initiatives now shaping how institutions approach equity in STEM, including Breaking Barriers to Black Academia, and is co-founder of GEDITT. At the University of Leicester, her work contributed to the institution rising from 45th to 23rd in enterprise rankings. She is founder and editorial lead of Faultlines, examining how research and innovation institutions distribute power, consequence and recourse — and what happens when those systems are tested. A member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and contributor to its Missing Elements report on racial and ethnic inequalities in the chemical sciences, she brings experience of how institutions operate from inside them.
NATALIE ASKS:
"Who do institutions serve?"
Tom Hockaday
Contributor and Advisor
Tom Hockaday is an independent technology transfer consultant with his business Technology Transfer Innovation, based in the UK. He has over thirty years' experience in the university technology transfer sector, starting out in 1989. He was CEO of Oxford University Innovation Ltd, the University of Oxford's Technology Transfer company, from 2006 to 2016, and before that worked in Technology Transfer roles at Bristol University and University College London. Tom is the author of 'University Technology Transfer - What It Is and How to Do It', published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2020. Tom advises governments and universities around the world on Technology Transfer, Proof-of-Concept and Seed Investment funds. He is Chair of the Investment Committee of the South Africa based University Technology Fund, Funds I and II; an Innovation Expert for the Knowledge-Industry Programme in Catalonia, and adviser to Open Innovation Partnership, University of Kyushu, Japan. Tom is a Founder of 'Global Equality Diversity and Inclusion in Technology Transfer'.
TOM ASKS
"Who captures the value institutions build?"
LAUNCH - OCTOBER 2026
10/2026
Stay ahead with new insights.
FAULTLINES launches in October 2026 with conversations, investigations
and analysis examining the systems and power beneath the headlines.
THE PODCAST
Conversations beneath the surface.
FAULTLINES is where we talk about what happens inside research and innovation systems — beyond the formal reports, polished impact stories and the formal version of events.
THE BACK ROOM
The main Faultlines conversation.
Reports, official accounts and formal versions of events aren't necessarily the whole story. The Back Room is where we talk about what actually happened - the decisions, assumptions and consequences that usually sit beneath the surface, and what the system could learn from it.
LOCKED-IN
Conversations with Founding Council members.
Every 3–6 months, a Founding Council member brings something on their horizon — a report, topic, question or issue they want to explore — and talks about it in their own terms.
FAULTLINES — FOLLOW THE PODCAST
COMING SOON
The first Faultlines conversations are currently in development.
CONTACT
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