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As pro v-c for research at Leeds, Andrew Thompson intends to develop early-career researchers, not least for the REF

Tyrrell Burgess, an innovative educational thinker, has died.

Carolyn Fowler, Durham University's first female registrar, plans to bridge the divide between academics and administrators

Using his work on DNA to treat cancer has won Stephen Jackson a prize, but he hopes it improves the blue-skies outlook

Despite striving to future-proof the UK's cities, Katie Williams admits to a weakness for the bling of Las Vegas

George Holmes, a leading historian of medieval and Renaissance Europe, has died.

Tony Owen is to lead University College London's first outpost Down Under - an institution that might help save our world

As QMU head, Petra Wend hopes to build on changes already made to one of Scotland's smallest institutions

Bob Boucher, a mechanical engineer who became vice-chancellor of two universities, has died.

Lynne Frostick is honoured to receive an accolade, but says men must do their share at home for women to excel at work

Sociology is shifting from studies of class to forgiveness, and John Brewer, the next president of the BSA, is in the vanguard

Umit Bititci has been honoured for his work helping to bring academics into knowledge transfer partnerships

David Docherty plans to retain the CIHE's focus on research while focusing on skills needed to retain the UK's competitiveness

Cara Murphy's craft has not been hit by the credit crunch and her new commissions include one from Downing Street

Keith Martin has been honoured for work on a stem-cell research for retinal injuries that cuts the need for animal experiments

Paul Cartledge has taken up Cambridge's first new Classics chair for decades, and is keen on a spot of iconoclasm

Former academic Joanna Newman is leading the British Library's efforts to engage universities in a high-tech era

Nigel Yates, an internationally renowned ecclesiastical historian, has died.

Richard Byrne has been serving in Helmand province, encouraging farmers to grow crops other than the poppy

Sally Ledger, a leading authority on Victorian culture and women's writing, has died.

Animator Simon McKeown's exhibition confronts conceptions of the body and the way disabilities are viewed

Dundee academic David Boxer is moving on to pastures new by taking charge of the Institute of Food Research

PhD student Artur Steinerowski has beaten established academics to an international prize for entrepreneurship

Globetrotting lecturer Alice Edwards has won a major prize for her research into legal responses to violence against women

Drawing on four decades in computing, Sir Timothy O'Shea is intent on ensuring that Jisc keeps serving the whole sector