Complete cure for joblessness
In the second of our series, we look at what students can expect from some fast-growing and fast-changing subjects When it comes to jobs, few students are more certain of instant employment than...
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Appointments
Napier University Michael Thorne, pro vice chancellor at the University of Sunderland, has been appointed vice chancellor of the university with effect from January 1998. University of Greenwich John...
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Chairs
University of Edinburgh Keith Smith, former head of department of the Scottish Agricultural College and latterly at the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management has been appointed professorial...
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The trouble with getting a real job
Poverty wages, contract posts, overt sexism. Scientists share their 'horror stories' with Martin Ince Earlier this year Alan Hale had his name publicised on a global billboard. Stunningly visible to...
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Sex as a method
In the second of our series on young researchers, Julia O'Connell Davidson tells Harriet Swain how using sex as a teaching aid led her to study the murky world of prostitution For Julia O'Connell...
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Is anyone interested in the sex life of composers?
Biographers of Schubert have speculated about both the state of his mental health and his sexual orientation. He is thought to have died of syphillis, which would explain some evidence of mental...
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Orchestral manoeuvres
Discord reigns among scholars over whether a composer's life is relevant to his music. In North America, meanwhile, new musicologists argue that context is the key to musical meaning. Harriet Swain...
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Messages resonant in the midst of a score
Can music be moral, or fascist, racist and sexist? Current thinking in the United States is that it can. The "new musicology" makes context king. How music is created, performed and heard and by what...
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Theory amid chaos
Continuing The THES series on academics' rooms, astronomer David Hughes guides Kate Worsley around his office space A life spent looking at the skies through a telescope provides more than its share...
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A course off the menu
Pioneer Mary Douglas recounts the ridicule that torpedoed valuable work on eating rules and argues that research into food choices has been neglected for too long in anthropology I first got...
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Promotions
University of Reading The following have had the personal title of reader conferred with effect from October 1: J. Barnett, reader in developmental plant anatomy; L. Bunce, lecturer, reader in...
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Fellowships
University of Wales, Cardiff Honorary fellowships: John Birt, director general of the BBC; Andrew Davies, author, screenwriter and playwright; Dennis O'Neill, international operatic tenor; Ingrid...
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Honorary degrees
Aston University DSc: Roy Hattersley, former deputy leader for the Labour party and member of parliament for Birmingham Sparkbrook, author of books and columnist for Punch, The Guardian and The...
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Dr N. A.A. Macfarlane
Dr N. A.A. Macfarlane becomes a vice-president of the Association of University and College Lecturers from September 1, not president as reported in The THES on August 1.
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Enter the thinking thug
As a conference on violence opens, Alan Thomson looks at research into the topic A NEW wave of Hollywood films seems to be rejecting stereotypical male violence in favour of cool reflection, a...