Blix set for Cambridge
Former Iraq weapons inspector Hans Blix is due to receive an honorary doctor of law from Cambridge University in June. The university will also award honorary degrees to Baroness O'Neill, philosopher...
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A prize to count on
Paul Fearnhead of the department of mathematics and statistics at Lancaster University has won this year's Adams Prize. It is awarded by Cambridge University's faculty of mathematics and St John's...
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NUS re-elects Tumelty
Gemma Tumelty has been re-elected president of the National Union of Students. She won the votes of more than two thirds of delegates at last week's NUS annual conference in Blackpool. She will serve...
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Glam it up, Salford
Glam rock as a module option? Marc Bolan as a research topic? Unlikely as it sounds, visiting professor Philip Auslander is about to share his expert knowledge of the 1970s popular music scene with...
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New chief for science
Peter Warry, former chairman of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, is to be chairman of the new Science and Technology Facilities Council that launched on April 1. The STFC brings...
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'To some extent we've given up being Israelis'
The Israeli history professor and peace activist who wants to see a European centre for Palestinian studies at Exeter is no stranger to controversy. Melanie Newman reports A controversial Israeli...
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Two years on, another country, another storm
Two years ago this month, Ilan Pappé found himself at the centre of an international storm over the academic boycott of Israel. His appointment at Exeter University now looks set to put him in the...
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Kent biometrics boost
Kent University's department of electronics has set up the United Kingdom Biometrics Institute. The institute is supported by Kent Enterprise and aims to enhance the exchange of knowledge and...
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Early Nazi study cash
Birkbeck, University of London, has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to investigate the Nazi concentration camp system between 1933 and 1939 to try to uncover the...
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LSE man shortlisted
Arne Westad, convener of the London School of Economics' international history department and co-director of the Cold War Studies Centre, has been shortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book Award for The...
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Marx reassessed
Chris Yuill from Robert Gordon University is to present a paper reassessing Marx's theories in the context of modern "weightless" knowledge economies at the British Sociological Association...
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Tense women at work
A survey by researchers at Kingston University shows that women are less relaxed than men at work but fare better in appraisals and have more confidence in their senior managers.
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Chunnel of thought
Sean Street, professor of radio at Bournemouth University, will present Light at the End of the Chunnel , an examination of the history and symbolic significance of the Channel Tunnel, at 8pm on BBC...
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ESRC-BA fellowships
The Economic and Social Research Council and The British Academy are joining forces to fund visiting fellows from South Asia and the Middle East. Twelve of the 19 fellowships have gone to academics...
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Bodleian slavery books
Oxford University's Bodleian Library is publishing two titles to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. The Slave Trade: Contemporary Writings For and Against contains...