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A look at what makes the swingometer swing
Political Research
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Bridge into the heart of China
Governance and Politics of China
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War is hell but profit is possible
War and Underdevelopment - War and Underdevelopment
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The past predicts a fragile future
Lineages of the Present - The Geopolitics of South Asia - Reinventing India
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Laurie Taylor column
Letters: Rankled by rankings . My attention has been drawn to a letter published in your columns in which the vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York have questioned the reliability of research...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 1
How we might best understand the suffragette movement and the role of the Pankhurst family in it is a matter of heated dispute ("The Pankhursts - politics and passion", THES , January 25). But while...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 2
June Purvis raises important questions about Martin Pugh's use of evidence, his disregard for the rights of an informant and his interpretations of the suffragette movement in his book, The...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics'
Pugh does not engage with the ethical and intellectual issues that Purvis raises about writing biography. His attempt to demonise her as the "mad woman in the attic" fails miserably since scholars...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 4
Although I cannot comment usefully on the merits of Pugh's book, my personal experience shows that June Purvis believes that men can contribute to women's history. The pages of Women's History Review...
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Letter: RAE stacks odds 1
I have been watching the latest research assessment exercise unwind. It seems highly unlikely that the unprecedented improvements in ratings reflect genuine improvements as opposed to grade inflation...
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Letter: RAE stacks odds 2
Is undergraduate teaching a major contributor to high-quality research in the sciences - as was considered by the Robbins report in the 1960s - or an encumbrance? Using 1996 figures from the Higher...
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Letter: RAE stacks odds 3
Historians at Huddersfield also raised their RAE score from 3a to 5 but without recourse to professional sleuths. Nor was it viewed as achieving the "almost impossible". Rather it was the outcome of...
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Leader: Spend on research, not its Byzantine grading
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England's decision to cut all but 5* research in this year's funding allocations has understandably provoked uproar. Was it for this that so many people...