Author: Nollaig FrostEdition: FirstPublisher: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill EducationPages: 384Price: £70.00 and £26.99ISBN 9780335241507, 41514 and 41521 (e-book)A text on research methods...
Authors: Peter Atkins and Julio de PaulaEdition: SecondPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 590Price: £34.99ISBN 9780199564286Sometimes the most creative scientific research happens at the...
Forensic ScienceAuthors: Andrew R.W. Jackson and Julie M. JacksonEdition: ThirdPublisher: Pearson EducationPages: 544Price: £39.99ISBN 97803738404Aimed at newcomers to forensic science, this text...
Authors: Peter W. Atkins and Ronald S. FriedmanEdition: FifthPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 560Price: £39.99ISBN 9780199541423For many, the mere mention of quantum mechanics will conjure up...
Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement
Well, they’re not doing badly. But in a world in which capitalism is in crisis, the Left is moribund, activists are slick professionals and rebellion drives sales, Alastair Bonnett envisages a new...
Science affects everyone on the planet, so how and to what extent should the public help set its agenda? Jon Turney looks to the notion of vox populi research for some ideas
The standfirst of "You can't tell me anything" ( October) says that "the gleefully bull-headed ignorance shown by politicians, bloggers and others" suggests that "scientific evidence and scholarly...
Which?'s intention to move into the world of higher education information provision has caused something of a stir (The week in higher education, October).We know that choosing a university is a...
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council claims to have consulted the scientific community regarding its "shaping capability" policy aimed at maintaining the UK's global research...
It was good to see "citizen science" featured in Times Higher Education ("Powered by the people", 20 October), but the article's claim that the vast majority of initiatives in this area are American-...
The philosopher Gilbert Ryle once sought to explain the notion of a "category mistake" by recalling a tourist in Oxford complaining that he had been round the colleges but still hadn't found the...
In "Sector: too many cooks will spoil regulatory broth" ( October), Pam Tatlow, chief executive of Million+, says that proposals to give the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Quality...
Using fiction to satirise perceptions of the current state of the academy seems to be gaining in popularity ("This REF is a deadly serious undertaking", 20 October). A couple of years ago we had the...
The head of outreach programmes at the University of Cambridge has said that students at the institution are "appreciably better" than they were 20 years ago.