Grant winners - 7 March 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Andrew JudgeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £532,390Models of care for the delivery of...
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Post-Arab Spring academic freedom examined at conference in Tunisia
University of Manouba hosts conference as dean Habib Kazdaghli faces trial said to ‘lack merit’. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
United StatesIt looks bad - we thinkA preliminary 2014 budget indicates that the governor of Louisiana may cut $200 million (£133 million) from state university funding. The higher education budget...
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Odds and quads - 7 March 2013
These items come from a few of the nearly 10,000 boxes of archival material that have just been donated by the international development charity Oxfam to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries...
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Don’t let vice-chancellors make every decision, says Portsmouth Business School scholar
Academic proposes ‘analytic hierarchy process’ and more planning to avoid costly mistakes by universities. David Matthews reports
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Campus round-up - 7 March 2013
Beat thatReanimated animal hearts and a series of musical pendulums originally developed for Icelandic singer Björk are among the exhibits at a university gallery in the Republic of Ireland. The...
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University of Northampton v-c tells sector to ‘ready, fire, aim’
Nick Petford urges universities to be less risk-averse in difficult economic times
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Filmspeak: How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies by Edward Tomarken
Philip Kemp wants more substance in the application of literary theory to popular cinema
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Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing The Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker
Steve Redhead on how the increasing sophistication of military technology affects modern warfare
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Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
Kate Kennedy praises a biography that examines the contradictory aspects of the composer’s character
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30 Great Myths About Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith
Gary Day reviews stories about the great playwright’s life - fact or fiction?
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Education: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Thomas
Anthony Feiler reviews a concise explanation of how the UK education system works and how it evolved
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The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology by Douglas Christie
Jules Pretty agrees that, for sustainable living, people need to feel a connection with the natural world
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Honora Bartlett, Stephen Halliday, Roger Morgan, Eileen Pollard and Emma L.E. Rees...
…on The Towers of Trebizond, Edward I and the Governance of England, Six Moments of Crisis, Derrida: A Biography and The Good Psychologist
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Appointments - 7 March 2013
University of TokyoCatriona ElderA University of Sydney academic who has been appointed visiting professor in Australian studies at the University of Tokyo said it was evidence that her family’s...