So how did Guantanamo become “the world’s most notorious prison”? Principally as a result of a Washington-created public-relations own goal. On 11 January 2002, the first group of 20 prisoners...
The bibliographies in today’s international relations texts rarely include anything published before about 1990, but there is one work still regularly listed and discussed that appeared as long ago...
Matthew Reisz meets reluctant Facebook darling Andy Field, the Harry Potter of the social sciences
Applications rise as institutions vow to play their part in resolving the crisis. Hannah Fearn reports
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe third phase of the National Prevention Research Initiative.Award winner: A. AndersonInstitution: University of DundeeValue: £1,167,436Bewel: the impact of a body weight...
A new national football research centre was due to be officially opened by Gerry Sutcliffe, the Minister for Sport, at Southampton Solent University on 16 September. The Lawrie McMenemy Centre for...
An online database developed by an international group of researchers, including staff at the University of Exeter, could help tourists in France to understand insults hurled their way by rude...
Drawings by some of the UK's leading political cartoonists have been unveiled at the London School of Economics. The works, most of which were published in the 1990s, include caricatures of...
The world's first international research project on phototherapy - therapy involving photographs - is being launched by Roehampton University. The project, funded by the European Commission-backed...
The Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Royal Holloway, University of London, formalising the collaboration between the two organisations. Adam Tickell...
Five new research institutes have been launched at Teesside University. Graham Henderson, its vice-chancellor, promised that the additions would provide a "clearer focus" for research development at...
A strategic partnership to further research into traditional Chinese medicine has been signed by the University of Nottingham and Tasly Group, one of China's largest pharmaceutical companies and a...
Political experts at the University of Sheffield will do their bit to restore the public's confidence in politicians. Sheffield's department of politics has been awarded a £100,000 research grant to...
Plans have been announced for a £30 million chemical engineering facility at the University of Manchester. It will serve the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, and will...
Ethnic minorities, young adults and the poorly qualified are most likely to be out of work as a result of the recession, according to work at the University of Essex. Richard Berthoud, a researcher...