Growing together
Nancy Rothwell, Raymond Dwek, Alan Malcolm and Richard Dyer on the future of UK biology's learned societies
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Warning: chronic bullying is hazardous to the academy's health
Stress and harassment cost the sector millions of pounds in lost work days and feed a culture of human misery, says Sally Hunt
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House of Lords overrules accepted thinking in disability discrimination law
It is a well-established principle of discrimination law, including disability discrimination, that to prove discrimination a claimant must demonstrate that he or she has been treated less favourably...
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Top journals in energy and fuels by impact
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from Journal Citation Reports and Journal Performance Indicators
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It's Not Easy Being Green!
Jamie Targett, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, was quick to respond to criticism of our university's environmental policy that surfaced when Poppleton emerged in 125th place in the 2008...
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Appointments
Ian Crawford from Birkbeck, University of London, has been appointed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council to act as project scientist for the proposed UK-led MoonLITE mission to the Moon...
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Supermarket sweep
Kevin Fong discovers fear in a campus mini-mart shelf full of Pot Noodles
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Leader: The twilight zone needs its leaders
Middle management occupies an uneasy but vital position between collegial scholars and master-planning senior officials
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David Kerr, 1945-2008
Long before events thrust the relationship between Christianity and Islam to the centre of the political consciousness, David Kerr was devoting his professional life to furthering interfaith...
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Targeting future skills
Idly perusing the job adverts (Classified, 3 July), I see that a "Director of Grand Challenges" is sought who can demonstrate "outstanding communication, interpersonal and influencing skills". Lest...
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Elite in retreat 1
Katharine Ellis manages to sound very upbeat in her response to Kevin Sharpe's appeal for a UK equivalent to any number of US institutions devoted to advanced research in the humanities (Letters, 26...
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Elite in retreat 2
Katharine Ellis's suggestion that the Warburg and the various uncoordinated institutes at Senate House constitute the national Institute for Advanced Study for which I called is a classic case of...
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Examining the evidence
If Peter Williams doubts that the external examiner system is no longer fit for purpose (Letters, 3 July), let me now extend an invitation to him to meet me and review the first-hand evidence (not...
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Still seeking proof
In our book Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, Simon Singh and I evaluate the evidence for or against some 40 alternative therapies. We stress that several are backed by encouraging...