Sex as a method
In the second of our series on young researchers, Julia O'Connell Davidson tells Harriet Swain how using sex as a teaching aid led her to study the murky world of prostitution For Julia O'Connell...
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Is anyone interested in the sex life of composers?
Biographers of Schubert have speculated about both the state of his mental health and his sexual orientation. He is thought to have died of syphillis, which would explain some evidence of mental...
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Orchestral manoeuvres
Discord reigns among scholars over whether a composer's life is relevant to his music. In North America, meanwhile, new musicologists argue that context is the key to musical meaning. Harriet Swain...
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Messages resonant in the midst of a score
Can music be moral, or fascist, racist and sexist? Current thinking in the United States is that it can. The "new musicology" makes context king. How music is created, performed and heard and by what...
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Theory amid chaos
Continuing The THES series on academics' rooms, astronomer David Hughes guides Kate Worsley around his office space A life spent looking at the skies through a telescope provides more than its share...
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A course off the menu
Pioneer Mary Douglas recounts the ridicule that torpedoed valuable work on eating rules and argues that research into food choices has been neglected for too long in anthropology I first got...
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Promotions
University of Reading The following have had the personal title of reader conferred with effect from October 1: J. Barnett, reader in developmental plant anatomy; L. Bunce, lecturer, reader in...
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Fellowships
University of Wales, Cardiff Honorary fellowships: John Birt, director general of the BBC; Andrew Davies, author, screenwriter and playwright; Dennis O'Neill, international operatic tenor; Ingrid...
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Honorary degrees
Aston University DSc: Roy Hattersley, former deputy leader for the Labour party and member of parliament for Birmingham Sparkbrook, author of books and columnist for Punch, The Guardian and The...
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Dr N. A.A. Macfarlane
Dr N. A.A. Macfarlane becomes a vice-president of the Association of University and College Lecturers from September 1, not president as reported in The THES on August 1.
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Enter the thinking thug
As a conference on violence opens, Alan Thomson looks at research into the topic A NEW wave of Hollywood films seems to be rejecting stereotypical male violence in favour of cool reflection, a...
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Beaten by mud, inglorious mud
As a conference on violence opens, Alan Thomson looks at research into the topic TENS OF thousands of men died in the first world war because commanders did not know the importance of battlefield...
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Factfile
*There are 370,119 post-graduate students in the United Kingdom *25.4 percent (94,010) of postgraduate students were studying for research degrees *74.6 per centof postgraduates were studying for a...
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THES boosts circulation to record high
THE circulation of The THES for January to June 1997 averaged 28,861 copies a week, 5.4 per cent ahead of the same period in 1996 and an all-time record, according to the the Audit Bureau of...
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Look back at anger?
As a conference on violence opens, Alan Thomson looks at research into the topic DRUGS to control levels of human aggression and violence could soon be developed, say researchers from King's College...