Red tape, don't you just love it!
Tim Birkhead has seen the light - the RAE lifts indolent dons from ivory towers. And as for the 50 per cent participation target... Believe it or not, I've had a change of heart. Following my annual...
Tim Birkhead has seen the light - the RAE lifts indolent dons from ivory towers. And as for the 50 per cent participation target... Believe it or not, I've had a change of heart. Following my annual...
The RAE brings out the spoilt child in academics who know their market value, bemoans Tim Birkhead. My first head of department was a tyrant. He had been a sergeant-major in the Second World War,...
Tim Birkhead superbly describes the Kafkaesque bureaucracy under which academics toil in our universities today and the open contempt with which management routinely treats us ("Blank faces and...
The fewer, the merrier, says Tim Birkhead, who looks forward to exchanging ideas, not posing, at conferences. The high spot of the academic year is the conference season - that period of late summer...
The Darwinian nature of visit days can be disappointing, embarrassing and, occasionally, life-affirming, finds Tim Birkhead Of all the varied aspects of my job, one of the more demanding is dealing...
A labour of love pays tribute to our fascination with the winged world, writes Jim Reynolds
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Any idea how much cash is wasted in failed grant proposals? Tim Birkhead does, and suggests we could benefit from a lesson in falconry The noble art of falconry involves manipulating the behaviour of...
After battling with increasing student illiteracy, Tim Birkhead finally sees a glimmer of hope In this piece I'm gonna tell you about student writing. I was inspired by one of my tutees who began an...
Tim Birkhead proposes a simple way to protect the innocent from accusations of academic fraud The great British physiologist Sir Edward Albert Schäfer, who died in 1935, was described in his obituary...
Two years ago in this publication ("Modest revolt to save research from red tape", Letters, 12 February 2009), we wrote to express our concern with the research councils' new initiative now known as...
The prospect of paying for his kids to get poor teaching leads Tim Birkhead to rethink the need to train lecturers It is remarkable how having one's own offspring at university changes your view of...
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Illicit cosmetic surgery can transform a shoddy scientific paper - and leave referees feeling decidedly ill at ease, says Tim Birkhead We live in a culture of seeing what we can get away with,...
Tim Birkhead's column "The UK's great £19.5m lottery" (Working Knowledge, July 21) has implications beyond the dishing out of grant funding. It resonates with recent articles and letters about the...