Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance
The "making of American dance" bit of the title likely brings to mind a certain Martha, and indeed the legendary Graham figures significantly in Janet Mansfield Soares' biography. Its subject,...
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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers and Other Unusual Relationships
"Gross," starts the preface to this curious collection on the strangeness of nature. Beetles that commit siblicide, toxic frogs, kleptoparasitism in birds, hallucinogenic plants, poisonous dragons,...
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CULTURAL STUDIES- Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture: Homecoming QueensBy Martin Dines, lecturer in suburban and cultural studies, Kingston University. Palgrave Macmillan, £50.00...
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Campus Horror!
Police cars raced to our campus on Tuesday as news came through of a fatal stabbing following an outbreak of mob violence in the Senior Common Room of David Willetts College.According to unconfirmed...
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Future present in the US
We should learn from the American experience with fees, says Alan Ryan
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Research intelligence - A Wellcome break from the funding treadmill
Trust's long-term awards will put scientists, not their proposals, first. Zoe Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Put all the results out in the open
Researchers, government and society benefit when research is made freely available, so the sooner it is mandated, the better
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From where I sit - Symbolic meaning
If history is the hunting ground of politicians, as was suggested in Times Higher Education recently, then what makes one political deployment of history worse than another?This question is...
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John Ramsden, 1947-2009
A historian who transformed understanding of British conservatism has died.
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Impact is created in immeasurable ways 1
How ironic that the "senior sector figures" should be protected by Chatham House rules, when the powerful rulers single me out as a powerless ordinary academic ("Managers and scholars divided as...
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Impact is created in immeasurable ways 2
In their open letter to Research Councils UK, Donald Braben and his co-signatories urge peer reviewers to stage a "modest revolt" by declining to "assess" potential economic impact. It is worth being...
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Impact is created in immeasurable ways 3
In an attempt to make opposition to the "impact agenda" seem foolish, a panellist is quoted as inviting academics to raise their hand if they would want their work to have no impact whatsoever: "I...
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Named and/or shamed?
The article on citation counting ("A measure of humanities?", 5 November) mentions two reasons why this method is ill-suited to assessing the quality of work produced in the arts and humanities:...
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Unequal treatment
Keith Burnett's appointment as the new chair of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association comes at a critical time for the sector. We had hoped that a new face at the helm would usher in a...