Anglia Ruskin University
• Helen Kirkby has joined as an administrator in arts, law and social sciences.• Heather Coghlan has joined as a community development administrator in student affairs.• Sarah Driscoll has joined as...
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Anglia Ruskin University
• Simon Schama Professor Schama is a broadcaster and author who has been praised for bringing history to a mass audience by making it accessible and entertaining without compromising facts. He has...
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University of St-Andrews
• Séamus Davis of Cornell University has been appointed to the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance Distinguished Research Professorship, a project that will see a long-term collaboration between...
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University of Hull
• Wave Crookes is the new Dive Instructor at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the university’s Scarborough campus.• Robert Parry, dean of the faculty of health, is leaving to...
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Hull University
• Elain Smith, lecturer at the Scarborough School of Education, is retiring.• Katarzyna Gromec Broc, lecturer at the Law School, is leaving to take up the post of lecturer at the University of York...
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British Medical Association
• Shane O’Neill, commercial director for the BMJ Group, has been appointed by the Ministry of Justice to the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information.
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University College London
Christine Hawley, dean of the Bartlett and head of the faculty of the built environment at University College London, was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s honours list.
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London School of Economics
• Chen Jian has been appointed Philippe Roman chair in history and international affairs at the School for 2008-09. Professor Jian is currently Michael J Zak chair of the history of US-China...
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Economic and Social Research Council
• Ian Diamond, chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, is to continue as chairman of the Research Councils UK, the partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils, for a further...
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Keep your business side up
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, gave an enthusiastic welcome to last week's declaration by Deian Hopkins, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University, that...
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Taking the Mickey out
Sally Feldman on killing off 'soft option' media studies.
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Leader: Let us not prey on theology
Despite its many detractors, the discipline does have a role in the country's universities.
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Howard Dalton, 1944 - 2008
Howard Dalton was a distinguished microbiologist who transformed the use of science at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs while quietly fundraising to help alleviate poverty in...
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Committed to history with 14 names
When counting an author's citations in Thomson's Web of Science (or Science Citation Index), it is instructive to search for Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Baron (Lord) Kelvin of Largs, William...
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In search of value
As custodians of a substantial amount of public funds, universities have a duty to demonstrate the achievement of value for money ("Whitehall seeks £1.5bn 'savings' from sector budgets", 17 January...