Lancaster University - Gas guzzlers
A ?2.5 million research project into how rainforests control the composition and chemistry of the atmosphere is being led by Lancaster University. The three-year venture, funded by the Natural...
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When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across Borders
Juxtaposing scholarly essays with personal histories, When Men Dance probes the impediments (and, occasionally, the advantages) faced by male artists in a discipline plagued by "choreophobia,...
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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970
All this magnificent study of Pax Britannica lacks is the scent of sweat and blood, writes Joanna Lewis
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University of Portsmouth - Spin doctors travel to TechFest
Spinning a hard-boiled egg on a tabletop could help unlock the mysteries of the Earth's weather, according to a mathematician at the University of Portsmouth. Andrew Burbanks, who has been invited to...
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Politics round-up
Religion and Politics: Islam and Muslim CivilizationAuthors: Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi RedissiEdition: SecondPublisher: AshgatePages: 354Price: ?35.00ISBN 9780754674184Seeking to offer a fresh...
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Geography and Environmental Science round-up
Global Environmental PoliticsAuthors: Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie and Janet Welsh BrownEdition: FifthPublisher: Perseus/WestviewPages: 504Price: ?25.99ISBN 9780813344423For nearly two decades,...
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Rankings 09: Areas of expertise
Universities in East Asia are showing strength even in the humanities, a subject in which they traditionally have fared poorly
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Measured, and found wanting more
International comparisons of universities still have their detractors, but the appetite for them continues to grow. Phil Baty traces their roots and looks at how they are increasing in number and...
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Overseas briefing
United StatesBrigham Young lifts YouTube banA Mormon-affiliated university where students must agree to live a "chaste and virtuous" life has lifted its ban on YouTube. For the last three years,...
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Student Review: An Introduction to the Ancient World
Authors: L. de Blois and R. J. van der SpekEdition: SecondPublisher: RoutledgePages: 352Price: ?70.00, ?22.99 and ?22.99 (e-book)ISBN: 9780415458269, 86 and 0203893128The second edition of this...
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Market grows in strength as states run out of cash
Conference speakers say private solutions needed to cope with demand. Phil Baty reports from Doha
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The New Plagues: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
Stefan Kaufmann is both lucky and unlucky. His luck is to be a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, situated close to the Luisenstrasse, where in 1880 Robert...
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From the sublime to the sustainable, and back again
Some have odd titles, but many debates at the RGS conference are deadly serious, writes Matthew Reisz
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Exposed and vulnerable
The title could describe the feelings of overseas students in Australia and also the universities that enrol them. Phil Baty examines how violence against foreigners has put institutions' reliance on...
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What's mine is not yours...
... but that doesn't stop intellectual property theft. Adrian Johns tells Matthew Reisz that piracy is an age-old phenomenon - and that the concept of ownership itself faces a crisisAdrian Johns' new...