Roadtrips and peregrinations
Combining an academic life with travel writing isn't easy but, as Matthew Reisz discovers, the results can be fascinating
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Diary
NewcastleKeith Pattison: No RedemptionThe miners' strike of 1984-85 tore apart many long-established communities. Keith Pattison was at Easington Colliery to photograph the events from behind the...
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The Pick - La Soirée
Credit: PerouLa SoiréeRoundhouse, London, until 29 JanuaryNate Cooper arrives on stage on out-of-control roller skates, slipping and sliding in every direction, never managing to find a secure...
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'I fiddled my findings' shock
One of Poppleton's leading social psychologists, Doctor Mike Goshworthy, has admitted faking many of the results that helped to make him a national media figure.Dr Goshworthy told The Poppletonian...
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TV review: Real Crime with Mark Austin: Fallen Angel
The murder of a Hell's Angel on the M40 exemplifies the lurking barbarism of men, says Gary Day
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Film review: Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
An outdated, stylised reality is a missed opportunity for a more interesting narrative, laments Will Brooker
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Paula Allman, 1944-2011
Through her work in adult education and her force of personality, Paula Allman was "revered by those who dream of and work towards ushering in a better world".Born on 17 January 1944 in Chicago, Dr...
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Occupations are read the Riot Act by havens of free thought
Call for 'safe protest zones' as demonstrators face violence on US campuses. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
London School of EconomicsPaul De GrauweAn economist and former member of the Belgian Parliament has been named the first holder of the John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London...
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Odds and quads
Charles Darwin spent only 18 months of HMS Beagle's five-year voyage at sea.
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Research intelligence - Fanfare for the common front
Transparency and support for all UK science are the aims of the STFC's new chief. Paul Jump reports
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LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds
‘Damning’ report criticises governance, but Saif Gaddafi likely to keep PhD. David Matthews writes
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From where I sit - State the case for the public good
It has grown fashionable recently to pronounce that the distinction between public and private colleges and universities is now anachronistic.In Australia, as well as in the UK, we understand all too...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University for the Creative Arts/KentSlime mould gets movingTwo universities have joined forces in an attempt to explain complicated biological processes with computer-generated animation. The joint...