Ex-UUK head in new role as smaller-than-life action hero
US academic's bespoke model of Sir Steve Smith is 'a lot thinner', subject observes. John Gill reports
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University of Abertay DundeeOnce and future departure of KingThe University of Abertay Dundee has once again confirmed the retirement of its suspended principal Bernard King, and said that all legal...
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Mersey-Lancs links spark fears
No urge to merge with Liverpool, insists Lancaster's v-c, but union sounds warning. John Morgan reports
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False economies
The EPSRC's funding shift from investigator-driven work to application-driven R&D is misguided, says Philip Moriarty
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Critical path: how did a book reviewer and an author end up in court?
Richard J. Evans weighs a High Court judgment that awarded an academic £65,000 in damages for negative coverage of her work
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Learn to discern
Technology is, of course, an aid to education, says Frank Webster, but we must teach students how to evaluate and filter information
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Turn off the TV, hide the phone and wallow in the low-tech luxury of a book, urges Valerie Sanders
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Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust
Biologically based aversions have fed into social and philosophical thinking, finds Simon Blackburn
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The Good Book: A Secular Bible
When I heard about this book, I assumed it was a joke. A.C. Grayling's satirical new "college" shows he's capable of it. But this book is much stranger and more interesting than that. It's deathly...
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The Dickens Industry: Critical Perspectives, 1836-2005
Can there be anything more to say about Dickens? Probably not, J. Cuming Walters declared in 1911 - "Of what there is to say of Dickens little has by now been left unsaid" - yet here we are, a...
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Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently
Kerstin Hoge finds little to shout about in an evolutionary theory of male and female speech
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The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England
On 25 March 1586, Margaret Clitherow, a Catholic in York, was crushed to death as punishment for harbouring a priest. Just to repeat - crushed to death. This terrible event has resonated with...
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Political Journeys: The openDemocracy Essays
Fred Halliday was an indefatigable traveller and a tireless writer. In David Hayes' selection from the 81 essays Halliday published on the openDemocracy website between 2004 and his untimely death...
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The new rules of the game
Laments about the ease with which we can be hypnotised by our past are merely the frustrated rants of culture's now-redundant gatekeepers, argues Philip Dodd
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Man about town
The future lies in greener, more intimate communities, Gary Day hears from a geographer on the edge