Judging experts by the company they keep
Tim O'Riordan discovers why the public trusts some experts but not others. I and two research colleagues recently asked a cross section of Norwich residents whom would they trust to tell them the...
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Overcoming the fear of flying with Joe Public as co-pilot
John Durant argues that any assessment of risk that hopes to command public confidence must mix scientific expertise with unqualified lay opinions. Living in what the German sociologist Ulrich Beck...
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The view from industry
Increased precision, good science and technical rigour are essential to risk-based decision-making. But by themselves they are not enough. People's values can dominate their feelings about a level of...
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Chairs
Lancaster University. Honorary professors: David Ashton, chief executive of Cable and Wireless College; Michael Brearley, psychoanalyst and former captain of cricket for Middlesex and England; George...
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Beckett loads
(Photograph) - Beckett loads: Trinity College Dublin Library has acquired an important collection of letters written by Samuel Beckett, together with other material never previously available. It...
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Fellowships
University of Wales, Swansea. Honorary fellowships for 1997: Neil Kinnock, European Union Commissioner for Transport; Ewart Alexander, dramatist; John Bridgeman, director-general of Fair Trading;...
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Grants
Queen's University, Belfast (continued) European funds. Dr D. Todd, Pounds 287,783 from the EU (fish pancreas disease); Dr F. Menzies, Pounds 59,420 from the EU: Aquafact (salmon farm epidemiology);...
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Honorary degrees
University of St Andrews. DLitt: Iain Banks, author; Hamish Brown, pioneer of outdoor education, freelance writer, guide and expedition organiser, founder member of the Scottish Mountain Leadership...
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King's London in biotechnology deal
A NEW biotechnology company with strong research links to King's College, London has raised an investment of Pounds 4 million. Called CeNeS, the firm specialises in diseases of the central nervous...
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Birds may carry killer E.coli
EVIDENCE that E.coli 0157 is carried by birds has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University who have warned that the potentially lethal bacteria could enter the human food chain. The...
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Harvard chief rides west
HARVARD provost Albert Carnesdale is swapping snowshoes for inline skates to head the University of California's Los Angeles campus. UCLA has 35,000 students and is twice the size of Harvard, but it...
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Science park life booming
University science parks are booming. The latest review of them found rising employment and increasing levels of investment.Last year alone science parks generated 360 new products and 250 technology...
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Game on
(Photograph) - Game on: Chris Morris, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, displays his interactive exhibition for teenagers that tackles sex, drugs, health, gambling, smoking, drinking and...
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Research papers
From this week, readers will be able to find research papersrelating to the stories on this page (where indicated)by accessing THESIS, The THES Internet service. The service is available at http://...
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Wavelength
(Photograph) - One of the competitors in the British Students' Surfing Championships riding the waves at Newquay in Cornwall last weekend.