Landscape architect and educator Kathryn Moore identifies a malaise in thinking about the design process, which she attributes to the traditional rationalist world view that sees designing as part of...
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDY- Management Theory in ActionBy Eric H. Kessler, senior professor of management, Pace University. Palgrave Macmillan, £58.50. ISBN 9780230607583Drawing on the accounts of...
An academic conference is to analyse the concept of luxury. In Pursuit of Luxury: Commercial and Academic Perspectives on Luxury will cover issues ranging from the understanding of the term to...
Examination stress is the stuff of nightmares for many - but a project aims to free children from its grip. Researchers at Edge Hill University and the University of Manchester have devised a...
Dances past and present are to be preserved in a digital archive. Researchers at the universities of Coventry and Surrey have won funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to create a...
An institution has produced a series of short films about the problems students face at university, including debt, alcohol abuse, dyslexia and moving out of halls. The Roehampton University series,...
Researchers have found no evidence that short-term health problems such as headaches, rashes and nausea are caused by exposure to a type of mobile phone mast. A two-and-a-half-year study, carried out...
Two scholarships have been launched to help improve a university's research links with the US. The Fulbright Commission is to fund two US academics to spend between three and eight months at the...
A website has been launched to help international staff moving to British universities. The site, created as part of a project led by the University of Leeds, aims to provide foreign academics with...
Chocoholics can rest assured that researchers are working to ensure the continued production of their favourite food. A five-year research project at the University of Reading will investigate the...
Gene therapy could be an effective way to improve survival rates among heart attack patients, research funded by the British Heart Foundation suggests. Costanza Emanueli, BHF senior research fellow...
The Ivory Coast has announced that its team will train at the University of Bedfordshire in the run-up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The West African nation has signed a memorandum of...
An electronic archive of manuscripts chronicling the Hundred Years War has been created by academics at two institutions. The archive, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and...
A Scottish research company is designing a new generation of antibiotics using academic expertise to combat drug-resistant bacteria such as the hospital "superbug" methicillin-resistant...
A research unit looking at the impact of fat on the development of disease is to be established at the UHI Millennium Institute. The centre at the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands...