Grant winners - 10 July 2014
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Mark GrossInstitution: University of CambridgeMirror symmetry and...
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Geoffrey Alderman, Caroline Flurey, Richard Howells, Karen McAulay and John Shand...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910-2010, by Selina Todd
Clare Griffiths appraises a century of untold tales about life on the bottom rung of the social ladder
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Punch Historical Archive goes online
150 years of the satirical magazine is now available to researchers
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The Story of Pain, From Prayer to Painkillers, by Joanna Bourke
Brian Hurwitz on the inadequacy of language when it comes to describing physical suffering
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Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James, by Teresa Michals
Which came first, the children’s novel or the adult novel? Shelley King finds out
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Arnold Schoenberg’s 'A Survivor From Warsaw' in Postwar Europe, by Joy H. Calico
David Revill explores a composer’s symbolic musical remigration during the early Cold War
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Inna Sovsun: Ukraine's youngest minister plans academy shake-up
Minister keen to reform archaic system, including consolidation of institutions, end to two-track admissions
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Q&A with Dame Jessica Corner
We speak to the new chair of the Council of Deans of Health
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Everyone should make further enquiries
A drive to make colleges more research active must take in students, say Mick Healey, Alan Jenkins and John Lea
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Scholar's tribute to The Who's album Quadrophenia
Academic weekender in Brighton explores youth subcultures and theory
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Peter Fisher, 1955-2014
A leading figure in the development of geographical information science has died
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Appointments - 10 July 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Far Afield: French Anthropology Between Science and Literature, by Vincent Debaene
Jeremy MacClancy on the evolving relations between two complementary disciplines in France in the first half of the 20th century
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Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers, by Michael Mack
Rachel Bowlby expects some numerical discussion but finds only hefty claims