Laurie Taylor – 11 May 2017
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Grant winners – 11 May 2017
This week's round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Politics of the Rock
The view that Spain ceded sovereignty over Gibraltar to the UK in 1713 is far from “tendentious”, and certainly not a “howler” (“In response: Gibraltar, universities and the EU”, Blogs, 2 May). Most...
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Markets and minds
Sir Thomas Gresham – who is mentioned in the review of London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City (Books, 27 April) – helped to establish London as a global financial centre. Yet he...
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Network effects
In the article “US academics put research interdisciplinarity on the map” (News, 20 April), Simon Baker offers a nice example of the mapping of networks of collaboration (and intellectual influence...
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Variable rates
Well done to Michael Paraskos for emphasising that academic conferences that offer reduced fees for students seldom make similar adjustments to attract lecturers on low wages (“Concessions, please”,...
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For the vole role
I was delighted to learn (The Week in Higher Education, 27 April) that Natalie Nevarez from the University of Michigan is to conduct research on the sex lives of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster...
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Manchester 'blames Brexit' for 'enormous' job cuts
UCU attacks plans to cut 171 posts, but university denies Brexit 'the reason'
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European Commission calls for more research on migration
Understanding reasons for population movements could help European countries forge more effective responses
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University mergers planned in Lithuania
Plans for higher education reform rule out institution closures
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US watchdogs face 'crisis' in post-truth age
Increased scrutiny of US sector and distrust of academics puts traditional quality assurance models in question
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‘Improve diversity or lose funding’, Canadian universities warned
Country’s funding councils say institutions must offer research chairs positions to diverse pool of candidates
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Trump’s ‘America First’ approach is business as usual – even for scholars
Sir Keith Burnett writes from the US on the country’s mixed – and sometimes misleading – immigration history
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Peer review: should we let the robots take over?
Technologist argues that artificial intelligence could make publishing decisions in milliseconds