Media/Cultural/Gender Studies roundup
Key Concepts in Public RelationsAuthors: Bob Franklin, Mike Hogan, Quentin Langley, Nick Mosdell, Eliot PillEdition: First Publisher: SagePages: 2Price: £19.99ISBN: 9781412923194This text aims to...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: How Scarce Energy Is Creating a New World Order
The dust jacket of this book proclaims that "the price of oil has doubled in less than two years. And it is still rising". Not now it isn't.In early 2008, US investment bank Goldman Sachs, at that...
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Dude, where's my stimulus?
Kevin Fong bemoans science's continuing inability to secure its future
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Grant winners - Medical Research Council
The MRC has awarded £10.6 million to projects to develop better models of human disease, including diabetes, stroke, heart disease and age-related macular degeneration. Twenty research groups will...
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When it's a question of sport, one man has the answers
Profile: Simon Chadwick Professor of Sport Business Strategy, Coventry University. Few scholars can say that an encounter with the North Korean football team, at the age of two, set them on the path...
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Tara Brabazon: 60 seconds of scholarship
One day, I intend to conduct a study of how university staff download from iTunes. Do vice-chancellors – productively and efficiently – swoop into the site, grab the top ten lectures from iTunes U...
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Appointments
William Wakeham, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, has been appointed chair of the South East Physics Network, an association of six university physics departments: the universities...
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Policy watch
LIFELONG LEARNINGDenham lauds 'informal' studyThe Government has launched a consultation on "informal" adult learning that is not designed to lead to a formal qualification. John Denham, the...
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Tara Brabazon: YouTube has merit, but enough already of cat videos
There are plenty of opportunities for academics to take advantage of social media, but it’s important to separate the gems of revelation from the nonsense
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Research management must walk before it runs
The profession must take small steps to build its standing, a study has found. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Cross-sector approach to foster skills training
The Government has become too focused on the role that universities can play in improving the skills of the UK workforce, at the expense of further education colleges, which are often better placed...
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Trial by error
How bad is mainstream science reporting? Can it be improved or has it had its time? Zoë Corbyn investigates the issues and considers whether a paradigm shift is needed
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The fanaticism of denial that must be exposed
Scientists must engage more with the public or the HIV/Aids deniers will gain credibility, argues Tara Smith. There is no Aids epidemic in Africa. HIV doesn't exist. People are dying because...
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We did it before...
As universities agonise over greatly reduced funding from the state, David Greenaway reminds them that they were once much more financially self-reliant and would do well to rekindle the old spirit
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Clean, safe - and competitive: EU research delivers cutting-edge solutions for cleaner, more efficient and eco-friendly industrial processes - media briefing 16 July
Brussels, June 2002 Media briefing on Clean Technologies Tuesday 16 July 2002 European Commission, Brussels and Scoribel SA, Feluy, Belgium, On 16 July, the European Commission will organise a one-...