Overseas briefing
UNITED STATESScience funding fails to keep paceFederal spending on science research in the US is rising at a rate lower than inflation, according to a new report by the National Science Foundation....
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University-of-Liverpool
• Greg Hurst, formerly reader in evolutionary genetics at University College London, has been appointed professor of biological sciences.  • Neil Hall, formerly at the Institute of Arable Crop...
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University of Liverpool
Larry Barham, presently researching in the Luangwa Rift Valley in eastern Zambia, has been appointed professor in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology.
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Anglia Ruskin University
David Hingley has joined as a senior lecturer in health and social care.Paul Valoo has joined as a senior lecturer in health and social care.
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Anglia Ruskin University
• Beverley Vaughan has joined as a senior lecturer in science and technology.
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Anglia Ruskin University
• Helen Kirkby has joined as an administrator in arts, law and social sciences.• Heather Coghlan has joined as a community development administrator in student affairs.• Sarah Driscoll has joined as...
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Anglia Ruskin University
• Simon Schama Professor Schama is a broadcaster and author who has been praised for bringing history to a mass audience by making it accessible and entertaining without compromising facts. He has...
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University of St-Andrews
• Séamus Davis of Cornell University has been appointed to the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance Distinguished Research Professorship, a project that will see a long-term collaboration between...
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University of Hull
• Wave Crookes is the new Dive Instructor at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the university’s Scarborough campus.• Robert Parry, dean of the faculty of health, is leaving to...
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Hull University
• Elain Smith, lecturer at the Scarborough School of Education, is retiring.• Katarzyna Gromec Broc, lecturer at the Law School, is leaving to take up the post of lecturer at the University of York...
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British Medical Association
• Shane O’Neill, commercial director for the BMJ Group, has been appointed by the Ministry of Justice to the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information.
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University College London
Christine Hawley, dean of the Bartlett and head of the faculty of the built environment at University College London, was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s honours list.
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London School of Economics
• Chen Jian has been appointed Philippe Roman chair in history and international affairs at the School for 2008-09. Professor Jian is currently Michael J Zak chair of the history of US-China...
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Economic and Social Research Council
• Ian Diamond, chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, is to continue as chairman of the Research Councils UK, the partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils, for a further...
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Keep your business side up
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, gave an enthusiastic welcome to last week's declaration by Deian Hopkins, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University, that...