Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural MaterialismEdited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan SinfieldPolitical Shakespeare appeared in 1985, alongside a similarly focused collection of essays,...
Richard Rose admires the clarity with which Europe's growing doubts about integration are outlined
As the internet has become not only an important news source, but a force that is rapidly merging traditional news platforms, television, print media and subjective postings, it is somewhat...
This is a key contribution to a growing body of literature examining the history and cultural meaning of autism. Using a wide variety of data sources, the authors outline a sociology of autism that...
Top nations in neuroscience and behaviourData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpact1 England24,009 600,942 25.032...
Unions want the employer to bear the financial burden, not the student. Hannah Fearn reports
The University and College Union has condemned the University of Manchester's decision to repeat an exercise that assigns numerical scores to staff on the basis of their research output.Manchester...
RedundanciesLancaster loses pay-off appealLancaster University has lost an appeal to overturn a ruling that it pay 60 days' salary to a group of employees whose fixed-term contracts were not renewed...
Think digitally and steer academics away from their 'cravings', librarians are told. Hannah Fearn writes
Scientists have been measuring stars by monitoring their "singing ability". Researchers at the University of Birmingham have observed the natural pulse of the light waves emitted by stars and...
Older people should not feel guilty about taking naps during the day if it allows them to keep active and busy when they are feeling less tired, new research suggests. Academics at the University of...
A UK university's campus in China has been recognised for its international research collaborations by the country's government. The University of Nottingham's Ningbo campus, which opened in 2004,...
Two strains of mosquito responsible for the majority of malaria transmission in Africa have evolved such significant genetic differences they are becoming different species. The finding by a team of...
Archaelologists may have uncovered evidence of Britain's earliest known hospital. The University of Winchester's excavations at St Mary Magdalen, on the outskirts of the historic city, have revealed...
A post-1992 university has made its biggest investment yet in PhD studentships. The University of Northampton will spend £1.1 million on 24 new doctoral studentships in subjects ranging from the...