Stars in their eyes
Cognition in the Wild
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Thought provoking and beyond metaphor
Mind As Motion
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Toppling creation's crown
The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology
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Tracing the lines of assent
Treatment Without Consent
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The wounds that serve?
The History of Pain
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A rock in a hard place
Susan Hawley is stretching the boundaries of theological research. Elaine Williams reports. Held up by a road block, at the mercy of bandits in the northern mountains of Nicaragua between Managua and...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who derived a lot of inspiration from his time working in an American psychiatric ward in a veterans' hospital: "I been away a long time." The winner of...
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Speaking Volumes: The Second Sex
Maria Slowey on Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex . I first came across The Second Sex in a second hand bookshop in Dublin. At the time I was attending my first consciousness-raising sessions, and...
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Fellowships
ROYAL SOCIETY/LEVERHULME TRUST. A senior fellowship has been awarded to Frank Bisby of the University of Southampton to develop his design work on the Species 2000 programme for the United Nations...
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Appointments
PPARC. Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has appointed the following to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council: Len Culhane, director of Mullard Space Science...
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Awards
THE ROLEX AWARDS FOR ENTERPRISE. British archaeologist Georgina Herrmann has received a Rolex Award for Enterprise for her exploration of the Great Silk Road site of Merv, an oasis in the Kara Kum...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM. Professorships: Martin Millett, senior lecturer in archaeology; Ian Shennan, reader in geography; John Anstee, senior lecturer in biological sciences; Jas Pal Badyal, lecturer...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Readerships: J. Illingworth and M. Petrou, electronic and electrical engineering; P. Buckle, Robens Institute of Industrial and Environmental Health and Safety; R. Edelmann,...
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A doctorate in McMarking?
Being a postgraduate student has always been hard but it is getting so much more difficult. As universities are squeezed, a great deal of pressure is applied to staff and through them to research...
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New elite's threat to cream off cash
Potential PhD students could find that they can only get public funding if they secure places at top-rated university departments, as a result of a proposal published this week. The major review has...