University-of-Manchester
Brian Derby has been nominated for the Saatchi and Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas for his “Printing Skin and Bones” project. Professor Derby is one of only two UK finalists for the award.
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Lincoln University
Brian McGaw, dean of health, life and social sciences, has been appointed dean of the faculty of science and technology at Deakin University in Australia.
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Teesside University
Alan Clements, a professor in the university’s school of computing, has become the first European to win the Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the highest international award in computer science...
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Leeds Metropolitan University
Valerie Alia is the first of the initial wave of running-stream professors appointed in 2004 to retire, although she will continue to support doctoral students and research endeavours as a visiting...
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Bath Spa University
Tessa Hadley, who teaches literature and creative writing at Bath Spa University, has been shortlisted for an award in the United States for her collection of ten short stories, Sunstroke and Other...
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Bath Spa University
Katie Akerman has been appointed head of quality management in the academic Office.Esther Williams has been appointed deputy registrar.Deborah Kearin has been appointed administrator in student...
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University-of-Glasgow
Stephen White, professor of international politics at the University of Glasgow, has been awarded a major research fellowship by the Leverhulme Foundation for a large-scale project on democracy in...
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Queen Mary, University of London and London Metropolitan University
Alastair Hudson of Queen Mary, University of London and Fernando Barrio of the London Metropolitan University have been named joint winners of the Law Teacher of the Year Award 2008, sharing the £...
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University of Exeter
Marion Gibson of the department of English and Garry Tregidga of the department of Cornish studies have obtained a £252,000 grant from the AHRC for their “Mysticism, Myth and 'Celtic' Nationalism”...
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University-of-Exeter
Nobel Prize winning economist and author Amartya Sen has become an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD). He is currently Lamont University professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard...
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Royal Holloway - University of London
Dan Stone, professor of modern history at Royal Holloway, University of London has received the Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award for Older Readers for his contribution to the book Holocaust: The Events...
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University of Lancaster
Professor Garik Markarian has joined researchers at the university’s InfoLab21 where he takes up a chair in communication systems. Professor Markarian is formerly director of the Institute of...
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University of Huddersfield
Keith Webb, former Huddersfield Technical College tutor, University lecturer and current director of the University of Huddersfield Consortium for Post-Compulsory Education and Training (CPCET) has...
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University of Westminster
David Hendy, reader in media and communication, has won the History Today - Longman Book of the Year Award for his book Life on Air: A History of Radio Four.
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NERC deal could rescue ground-based solar physics
A deal to save the UK’s solar terrestrial physics, the branch of science that studies “space weather”, could be on the cards, according to one of Parliament’s leading science campaigners.The Science...