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ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFellowship Awards• Award winner: Karen Leeder• Institution: University of Oxford• Value: £88,657Spectres of the GDR: The haunting of the Berlin Republic• Award...
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The Pick - The Jameel Prize 2011
The Jameel Prize 2011LondonA mirror mosaic inspired by the feathers left behind by sparrows on the artist's balcony in Tehran; what looks like a piece of brown cloth lying on the floor, but turns out...
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21st Century: Art in the First Decade
Peter Hill considers an exhibition dedicated to art in the first decade of the 21st century and wonders just how innovative the past 10 years have been
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The Rattigan Enigma
Terence Rattigan was fascinated by what drives us and what makes our hearts ache, says Gary Day
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Diary
LondonHigh ArcticThis remarkable installation, displayed in the new Sammy Ofer Wing at the National Maritime Museum until 13 January 2012, was inspired by a trip to the Svalbard Archipelago...
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You're so vain!
"Absolutely right! Couldn't agree more! Spot on!"These were just a few of the enthusiastic reactions from Donald Ringling, our Head of Marketing and Promotion, to the recent proposal by Peter Reader...
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The week in higher education
• "A shelf stacker at Waitrose has more power in the corporate governance of the firm than I do as an academic at London Met." So said Maurice Glasman, the political theory lecturer and "Blue Labour...
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Leader: He who pays the piper...
Universities cannot be truly competitive unless they can set pay locally. Like it or not, national bargaining is a dead duck
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From where I sit - Not just preserve of the state
This year is an archaeological milestone of sorts. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the government department involved in the preservation of antiquities and monuments in India, will...
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Appointments
University of TorontoBarbara DickA former student of the University of Toronto has been appointed as its assistant vice-president (alumni relations). Barbara Dick graduated from University College at...
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Song for Europe
We must listen to the Continent’s sounds and sweet airs, says Malcolm Gillies
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Altered states for the lawmakers of the new measurement frontier
Citations and impact factors are old hat, says Matthew Gamble; the Web 2.0 generation needs metrics to match today’s scholarship
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Spirit levels
Is this a godless age? No, say 'post-secularist' academics, who argue that the world outside the liberal West is 'furiously religious'. But such scholars overstate the number of believers, contends...
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In theory, religion could go on and on
It is not just the prayerful who can be religious; by scholarly definitions, they can include fans of football teams and celebrities, says Robert Segal
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The research lab in your pocket: apps and the academy
Apps created by and for the academy could turn smartphones into essential academic tools for everything from teaching and citations to social-science fieldwork. Sarah Cunnane reports