Far from the madding crowd
Wai Jing Kee is working on a new insight into skin cancer at University College, London. Ayala Ochert reports. Like a department full of academics jostling each other to get on in their field, the...
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Science and the bigger picture
Tom Wakeford has written a book about making science more relevant to the environment. Ayala Ochert met him. After spending a year on the Nasa planetary biology internship, Tom Wakeford is still...
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Another country, a new ball game
Aisling Irwin and Tony Tysome report on the pitfalls of studying abroad. The case of a student who went overseas to do her PhD - only to leave in debt and without her doctorate as her department...
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Research degrees and jobs
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs. Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are several contact persons they have been listed...
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Indecently long proposals
The business of applying for grants is swallowing up researchers' time to research, argues Peter Bowbrick. I once spent a month writing a very carefully planned, researched and targeted proposal for...
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Silk pattern nets material loss
When Winchester School of Art student Jo Barrs went to Italy, in the autumn of 1990, for a work placement with the silk maker Mantero she knew nothing of intellectual property. She now feels she...
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The battle for rights to ideas
Who should own intellectual property, the researcher, their university or the funder? John Davies reports. If you are a postgraduate research student and discover something that can be exploited...
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A jargon-free zone for cross-pollination
Nathalie Teitler has launched a magazine forum for research students. Aisling Irwin met her. When she is not studying Argentinian women poets for her PhD, Nathalie Teitler makes truffles to sell to...
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Cyber seers
A new breed of 20-something philosophers are breathing controversy into cyberspace. Tony Durham reports from the Virtual Futures '95 conference. Music journalist Tony Marcus is talking about techno....
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Appeal
Lin Berwick has been accepted on London College's classical homoeopathy course from September 10, and is seeking assistance during term time on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. She needs someone to...
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Events
PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Final days of Part Two of the Royal College of Art's degree show includes the schools of applied art, architecture, interior design and furniture, design for industry,...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Readerships: Ahmey Kondoz, lecturer, reader in the department of electronic and electrical engineering; P. Voke, senior lecturer, reader in the department of mechanical...
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Chairs
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY. Michael Tovey, dean of art and design, has been appointed professor of industrial design; Clive Richards, associate dean, professor of information design; Robert Pryce, pro vice...
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Rosie picture
(Photograph) - Rosie picture: Natural history illustration student Jonathan Cook and his portrait of London Zoo's Rosie, on show at the RCA.
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Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY. Barry Jackson, head of the school of visual communication design, has been appointed dean of the faculty of art, design and performing arts from August 1, succeeding John...