Interdisciplinary research centers
Although the EPSRC does not have institutes it does have fixed lifespan interdisciplinary research centres. Established under the old Science and Engineering Research Council, they were created to...
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Cutting edge
Amanda Stronza ...reports from Hell, or Infierno in Peru, on the effect of ecotourism on the rain forest, its people and the rich wildlife. I wanted to test some of our assumptions about the impact...
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Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society in London
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society in London are launching a study on the implications of devolution for Scottish science and the British science base. The work group will be...
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How to get a job in research policy
If research is getting you down and you believe it could be better organised, maybe a career in research policy is the answer. Guy Rickett, a research council employee on secondment to the House of...
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Improvements on the big tube
A Pounds 175 million synchrotron could put Britain at the forefront of genome research, reports Julia Hinde. The comprehensive spending review brought a smile to the faces of scientists the country...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk British Council Hungary http://www.britcoun. org/hungary OMFB...
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Triumphant Mason urges NAO rethink
Stan Mason, sacked a year ago as principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, has urged the National Audit Office to reconsider its report on misconduct at the university after winning his case for...
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Research budget decided
Agreement has finally been reached on the size of Europe's future research programme with a Fifth Framework budget of Ecu 14.96 billion (Pounds 10.5 billion) agreed at a European conciliation meeting...
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Ms leading the audience
Ms-Directing Shakespeare: Women Direct Shakespeare By Elizabeth Schafer The Women's Press 7pp. ?14.99 ISBN 0 7043 4544 7. Keat's sonnet On sitting down to read King Lear again reminds us that such is...
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Damns and blasts
Word Crimes: Blasphemy and Literature in 19th-Century England. By Joss Marsh University of Chicago Press 431pp. ?43.95 and ?17.95 ISBN 0226 50690 8 and 50691 6. Joss Marsh's Word Crimes stakes out a...
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Dante's descendents
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature Edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile Cambridge University Press 701pp. ?70.00 ISBN 0 521 43492 0. In recent years there have been various large-scale...
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Echoes of Memphis and Thebes
The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC Translated by R. B. Parkinson Oxford University Press 317pp. ?45.00 ISBN 0 19 814963 8. Ancient Egypt is famous for its monuments...
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Smaller may be better
International Technology Transfer by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
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Pursuit through Xanadu
Coleridge
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Damns and blasts
Word Crimes