The week in higher education
• The bragging rights associated with getting a paper published in a leading journal such as Science or Nature are undeniable. But for the purposes of the research excellence framework, at least, a...
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From where I sit - A life still far from normal
"The effects of radiation do not come to people who are happy and laughing. They come to people who are weak-spirited, who brood and fret."Those were the words of Yamashita Shunichi, adviser to...
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Appointments
University of LincolnJacqui BriggsA politics expert from the University of Lincoln has been chosen to take on a senior role at the Political Studies Association. Jacqui Briggs, principal lecturer in...
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It's hard to bite the hand that feeds
Ahead of Lord Woolf’s report on the scandal of the LSE’s links with Libya, Christopher Davidson examines the issue of UK university funding by Gulf autocracies in the light of the Arab Spring
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The wonderful wizard of US
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is bewitched by the methods of an Arkansas teacher
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Theory of reciprocity
Social scientists and scientists will serve the public best by working together to present their findings, Alice Bell argues
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Mass effects for the arts as well as science
I was pleased to read Darrel Ince's article about the rise of the "citizen scientist" ("Powered by the people", 20 October). Citizens, and the oft-maligned amateur, have been involved in scientific...
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Unpredictable results
Douglas Kell, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, was quoted in ߣߣÊÓƵ as saying: "If I went to the Treasury and said: 'We aren't going to...
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Nurturing exploitation (1 of 2)
As a recently retired editor of an academic journal, I would like to take issue with Graham Taylor's defence of the role of publishers in the scholarly communication process ("A footnote? Far from it...
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Nurturing exploitation (2 of 2)
In recent months there has been much debate in the press on the issue of academic publishing, mostly either criticising publishers for monopolistic profit-making or pushing for an increase in "green...
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Scholarship out of reach
For the past two years I have been writing a history of Georgia. The task has been made much harder by the removal from the School of Oriental and African Studies Library to totally inaccessible...
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Familiar knowing look
Many academics accept some kind of a social constructivist model of knowledge and conduct qualitative research. Given that this is premised on the axiom that knowledge does not exist independently of...
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Unequal and unaddressed
Carole Leathwood paints a depressing picture, not only of the lack of gender equality in the academy, but also (and probably worse) the lack of any real progress towards achieving it ("Still a...
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Nine letters, 'much needed'
Since John Kentleton asks for a return of THE's competition to identify books by their first and last lines ("Alpha and omega again", Letters, 20 October), could I please request something I have...
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Film review: The Silence
The emptiness of the landscape reflects the bleak heart of a new German thriller, says Philip Dodd