Thought provoking and beyond metaphor
Mind As Motion
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Toppling creation's crown
The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology
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Tracing the lines of assent
Treatment Without Consent
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The wounds that serve?
The History of Pain
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Fellowships
ROYAL SOCIETY/LEVERHULME TRUST. A senior fellowship has been awarded to Frank Bisby of the University of Southampton to develop his design work on the Species 2000 programme for the United Nations...
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Appointments
PPARC. Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has appointed the following to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council: Len Culhane, director of Mullard Space Science...
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Awards
THE ROLEX AWARDS FOR ENTERPRISE. British archaeologist Georgina Herrmann has received a Rolex Award for Enterprise for her exploration of the Great Silk Road site of Merv, an oasis in the Kara Kum...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM. Professorships: Martin Millett, senior lecturer in archaeology; Ian Shennan, reader in geography; John Anstee, senior lecturer in biological sciences; Jas Pal Badyal, lecturer...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Readerships: J. Illingworth and M. Petrou, electronic and electrical engineering; P. Buckle, Robens Institute of Industrial and Environmental Health and Safety; R. Edelmann,...
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A doctorate in McMarking?
Being a postgraduate student has always been hard but it is getting so much more difficult. As universities are squeezed, a great deal of pressure is applied to staff and through them to research...
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New elite's threat to cream off cash
Potential PhD students could find that they can only get public funding if they secure places at top-rated university departments, as a result of a proposal published this week. The major review has...
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Seeds for ideas
As part of our series on finding funds, we look at the Economic and Social Research Council's funding stream aimed at younger researchers, often overlooked by postgraduates. And we talk to some...
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Adrian Beck, 32
Recently Adrian Beck accompanied Dutch police officers in a factory raid. They were looking for illegal immigrants working there, but although none were found, he was able to observe how the non-...
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Jacky Boivin, 31
She is less than a year into her ESRC-funded research, but Jacky Boivin is already "very excited" about her findings. Her interest is in the relationship between stress and infertility, in particular...
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Seth Armitage, 31
A lecturer in finance in Edinburgh University's department of business studies, SethArmitage had no great hopes of getting an ESRC research grant at his first application. "Everybody said you can try...