Economics lecturer
The tale of Mrs Typical is one of lost income that will plague her for life, according to research from Birkbeck's economics department. Hugh Davies, lecturer in economics, has constructed income...
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Biomechanics group leader
The biomechanics group is one of Imperial's biggest patent sources, covering products such as artificial elbows, knees, shoulders and ankles. Andrew Amiss heads the group and one of his research...
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Broadcast media research leader
Broadcast media in eastern Europe continue to suffer heavy political interference despite the collapse of communism and rise of democracy, research at the University of Westminster has revealed....
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History fellow
Ewen Green's main submission in the 1996 RAE shows why historians chafe at the exercise's arbitrary time limits. Dr Green, fellow and tutor in history at Magdalen College, published Crisis of...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a philosopher who was close to Pope and never far from a mitre: "Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be...
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Beware the jargon in academic-speak
THIS month the Plain English Campaign announced its list of shame, that is, public bodies and private firms found guilty of providing information that is difficult or impossible for ordinary people...
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Picasso's conscience
Picasso's biographer and friend John Richardson tells Kam Patel how the artist struggled to cope with being so far ahead of his peers and why his misogyny should be seen incontext. When the young...
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Tunnel vision
The Channel tunnel cannot be made safe from terrorism, contends John Adams. So why is the Government refusing to even face the issue? Early promotional literature for the Channel tunnel featured a...
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The real David Marquand stands up
Politician or professor? Brian Brivati talks to the principal of Mansfield College, about new Labour, the new right and his new job. Two of Thatcher's underclass once sledge-hammered my front door. I...
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Whither Scotland's flower?
Is Scotland an integral cultural and economic part of the United Kingdom or would it be better off as an independent state in another, looser, union of European states? Malcolm MacKenzie and Neil...
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US starts archive of whole Web
It is estimated that the Internet contains enough information to fill ten million books. Now there is an effort under way to build a library for all of it. The Internet Archive is working to save a...
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Young Lion makes a meal of CD
LITERATURE ONLINE Chadwyck-Healey, +44 1223 215512, Annual subscription to all available databases for 2-4 users Pounds 15,665+VAT. http://lion. chadwyck.co.uk Literature Online (Lion) is a...
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Science fears for Birkbeck
A projected deficit of more than Pounds 2.6 million at Birkbeck College could signal the abandonment of laboratory-based science and a wave of redundancies, it was claimed this week. The college's...
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Limits to growth
As the research assessment exercise looms, a starred five for lateral thinking is surely in order for the unnamed department in one university which was told its submission was not lengthy enough. It...
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FCO in protest over arrest
The Foreign Office has protested formally to the Nigerian government over the arrest and deportation of a British academic caught up in tensions between Muslims and Christians. Michael Motimoore was...