Dwijen Rangnekar, 1965-2015
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Boosting the opportunities for Anglo-Brazilian partnerships
Universities UK meeting hopes to build further on existing initiatives
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Interview with Tanni Grey-Thompson
The multiple Paralympic gold medallist and now university chancellor reveals her excitement about graduation ceremonies and her sleeplessness over Daleks
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Funding variation across UK and cross-border money flows revealed in UCU report
Student mobility meant nearly £500 million of support funding flowed across borders in 2013-14
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Why did the chicken cross the road? For public engagement, of course
Researchers have employed a comedian to help them reach out to a wider public
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Sarah Churchwell: opening the doors to the ivory tower
‘Don’t claim you are changing the world if only four people are reading your article’, says new chair in public understanding of the humanities
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The Joy of Tax, by Richard Murphy
Marcus Chown on a brief, critically important guide to economic literacy
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From Labouring to Learning: Working‑class Masculinities, Education and De-industrialization, by Michael R. M. Ward
A Welsh town’s Boiz, Geeks and Emos are in urgent need of new scripts, finds John Field
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Lady Byron and Her Daughters, by Julia Markus
Duncan Wu on a study of marriage and motherhood
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Books interview: Hugh Pennington
Scary puddings, the art of succinctness and First World War myth-making: perspectives from the author of Have Bacteria Won?
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Richard J. Evans on the case for historical apologies
A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past, by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, by Eileen Pollack
Cait MacPhee on personal accounts of gender trouble in the sciences
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What are you reading? – 19 November 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, by Thomas W. Laqueur
Book of the week: Brace yourself for unusual keepsakes in a study of our attachment to corpses, says Deborah Lutz
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Brokering peace in Nepal
John Elmes talks to Paul Jackson about the politics scholar’s central role during negotiations between the Nepalese government and Maoist rebels