Birkbeck: Lifetime award
Professor Jay Belsky has won the prestigious Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for a Lifetime contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.
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Birkbeck: Head of School, Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Raymond Brummelhuis, is the new Head of School, Economics, Mathematics and Statistics and is Professor of Mathematical Finance.
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Birkbeck: Head of School, Biological and Chemical Sciences
Dr Richard Rayne, is the new Head of School, Biological and Chemical Sciences, and is a lecturer in Biology.
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Birkbeck: Dean of the Faculty of Science
Dr Nicholas Keep is the new Dean of the Faculty of Science. He is Reader in Structural Biology in the School of Cystallography and course organiser for the MSc Structural Molecular Biology
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Can institutions be held responsible if staff are harassed by non employees?
By Diane Gilhooley
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Can universities deduct pay for partial performance?
By Diane Gilhooley
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Can my institution force me to retire at 65?
By Diane Gilhooley
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Judges
MARKETING INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR Tricia Wombell, director of marketing and communications, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Clive Parry, sales and marketing director, SAGE BUSINESS...
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Marketing initiative of the year - Lonely hearts-style mailing
Leicester University. Faced with a drop of 3 per cent in the number of undergraduate applications in both 2005 and 2006, Leicester University decided to tackle the challenge by getting personal. It...
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Business initiative of the year - Apatech
Queen Mary, University of London. ApaPore, a safe and effective bone-graft material that approximates human bone, could mean an end to worries over the short supply of human bone confronting the...
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Widening participation of the year - NUstART
Napier University. Napier University has helped people from some of Edinburgh's most disadvantaged areas to discover their artistic talent and potential for higher education. Its NUstART initiative,...
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Young academic author of the year - Richard Toye, College lecturer
Homerton College, Cambridge. Richard Toye "has done something very difficult, especially for a younger scholar: he has taken a subject about which a lot has been written and written it afresh. He has...
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Young researcher of the year - Jon Williamson, Reader in Philosophy
School of European Culture and Languages, Kent University. Last year, Jon Williamson set up the UK's first Centre for Reasoning with the aim of taking the growing interdisciplinary interest in...
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Research project of the year - Measuring gamma ray bursts
Liverpool John Moores University. Gamma ray bursts are one of the mysteries of the universe. But they are becoming less mysterious thanks to research being undertaken at Liverpool John Moores...
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Contribution to innovation and technology - Polo
Leeds University. The Prediction of Labour Onset device (Polo) is a tool that can give doctors and pregnant women accurate information to determine the date and time when a baby will be born. Polo...