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Business resources for new students or staff
2009-09-22 16:48:00 With the university term looming, lecturers may be looking out for good online resources. Intute is constantly looking for new websites, usually free, and also updates its existing ones. Here are some suggestions to bookmark or put on your VLE, from Intute: Business and Management: For new lecturers, a must is BMAF, the H.E. Academy ... More About: Resources , Students , Staff
Reducing the spread of swine flu on aircraft
2009-09-22 15:58:00 New filter for airplanes ‘could reduce the spread of swine flu and norovirus’ (Telegraph) Air filter system ‘could end spread of bugs on flights’ (Times) AirManager cleans cabin air (The Engineer) “Inventor David Hallam, director of Quest International, explained a high-voltage coil in a dielectric arrangement generates the contained electrical field. This field destabilises compounds and materials in ... More About: Aircraft , Spread
Europa makeover
2009-09-22 11:07:00 The huge Europa website, the official site of the European Commission, has had a redesign. This enormous site, with over 6 million pages, is a must for European researchers, but has not always been well-loved for its ease of use. Some people have claimed it’s easier to search for Europa pages on Google first…. Now, there ... More About: Makeover
A brief history of whatever
2009-09-21 16:04:00 The recent ALT-C conference in Manchester included a keynote presentation from Michael Wesch, the social anthropologist from Kansas State University who is perhaps most famous for his work on YouTube and his viral videos A Vision of Students Today and Web 2.0 the Machine is Us/ing Us. The first half of the keynote looked at issues ... More About: Education , History
Recession Britain and the fiscal squeeze
2009-09-18 13:51:00 This week has seen some rather bizarre coverage of the latest turns in the global financial crisis, but what do academics have to say about where we go next? While those inside the Westminster Village got quite excited about Gordon brown using the C word – cuts – two new reports attempt to get to grips ... More About: Economics , Britain , Fiscal , Social sciences , Recession
Intute launches themed research sites for historians
2009-09-17 14:42:00 Intute has recently launched five quick guides for historians wanting to make the most of the Web for research. Each of the guides is introduced by an academic expert in their field and features links to the best websites for new researchers and those seeking primary sources. At present, there are guides to research in the ... More About: History , Research , Ireland , Sites , Humanities
New UK government publications this week
2009-09-16 15:58:00 Here is the latest update from the LSE Library in association with Intute. If you are interested in keeping up to date with social science publications online you might also like to look at the LSE research blog where you will find out other listings for social science subject areas. This week we have noted the ... More About: Government , Publications , Week , Social sciences , Government and Politics
Alright, Who Was It?
2009-09-16 11:15:00 Why do people blush? The involuntarily rushing of blood to the face – such a damnably prominent place for it – has puzzled thinkers all the way back to Plato. Darwin thought that blushing served as a warning to others that the blusher was not to be trusted. Scientific American reports on this research by Dutch ...
New nanotechnology centre
2009-09-14 18:46:00 Quietest room in the world opens its doors (Telegraph) ?Quietest? building in the world opens today (University of Bristol) Quietest building opens (New Civil Engineer) The Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information includes specialised laboratories where vibration and acoustic noise levels are among the lowest ever achieved, despite being located in the centre of Bristol. see also: Nanoscience & nanotechnology ... More About: Nanotechnology , Engineering
Economically, my dear Watson
2009-09-14 16:13:00 What has Sherlock Holmes got to do with teaching economics? Possibly, quite a lot. It?s one of the many thought provoking insights that I got from attending the DEE09 conference last week ? Daniel Blackshields of University College Cork presented a paper on how he uses the Sherlock Holmes Investigative Model (SHIM) to teach students to ... More About: Economics , Watson
And the award for best?
2008-06-05 16:20:00 “Mother! Look! I’ve got it! Look, Mother, look! The last Golden Ticket! It’s mine! I found some money in the street and I bought two bars of chocolate and the second one had the Golden Ticket and there were crowds of people all around me wanting to see it and the shopkeeper rescued me and ... More About: Award
Survey on use of online and print resources for philosophy and religious st
2008-06-04 18:13:00 Are you: A UK further or higher education student? Studying philosophy, theology, or religious studies? If so, Intute: Arts and Humanities needs your help! If you’re doing an AS/A level (or a Higher, or another similar qualification) or a degree in one or more of these subjects, we’d really appreciate it if you’d take a few minutes to fill ... More About: Philosophy , Resources , Survey , Print , Online
Reith Lectures 2008 - Chinese vistas
2008-06-04 17:18:00 The Beijing Olympics are looming and one frequently hears that the 21st century will be the Chinese century, so it is not surprising that the 2008 BBC Reith Lectures by the eminent historian Professor Jonathan Spence are on the theme ‘Chinese vistas’. The first lecture, ‘Confucian Ways’, was broadcast on 3 June and can be ... More About: Event
Observatori
2008-06-03 17:08:00 We?re all off to Valencia. Famous place ? known for its oranges. But there is more to it than that. When I say ?all?, it?s only a few of us really. But all are welcome. It?s Observatori 2008! Observatori is an arts festival, and there are artists, concerts, and workshops. This is an opportunity for me to ... More About: Event
Photographybook Now
2008-05-31 19:03:00 Vendors of print-on-demand books Blurb have launched the website for their Photographybook Now: International Salon & Symposium. This will be in London on 10th October 2008… “…a half-day program of panels and presentations exploring the modern photography book movement. You’ll hear working photographers talk about their books, hear industry practitioners discuss how to curate and design ... More About: Event
Tiger Far East Film Festival
2008-05-28 14:38:00 The Tiger Far East Film Festival opens in London and Brighton on 29 May, showing some of the latest movies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. East Asian cinema has become popular and influential in the West over the last couple of decades, and many excellent online resources, ranging ... More About: Event , Film Festival
Workshop - German-speaking refugees of 1930s
2008-05-26 13:28:00 The British Academy, London is hosting a workshop entitled “Reconstituting a Traumatized Community: the German -speaking refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy to Britain” on Tuesday 24th June. Convened by Professor Edward Timms and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, the workshop hopes to re-assess the legacy of the refugees who fled to ... More About: Event , Workshop , Refugees , Speaking
How do women write space?
2008-05-23 14:08:00 “In the second half of the 20th century space has become a reference point of cultural debates. Feminist critics have been particularly receptive to the new findings in this field, and set out to explore the specificity of the relationship between gendered subjects and the spaces they inhabit”. A one day conference on 7th March 2009 ... More About: Literature , Women , Event , Space , Classics
Survey of digital audio recorders
2008-05-22 06:50:00 Many researchers and academics will want to purchase a good small digital audio recorder, for a variety of purposes. Departments may also be considering buying one, so they can podcast public talks and symposiums. So the new B&H audio recorder guide may help in choosing one of the confusing range of sixteen makes and models. Bear ... More About: Audio , Survey , Digital Audio , Digital , Recorders
Conference: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Early Medieval Europe AD 400-
2008-05-21 11:58:00 Intute has launched a new events calendar that should reduce posts about events in this blog. However, some major or interdisciplinary conferences might still be worth mentioning here. One of these is entitled Disease , Disability & Medicine in Early Medieval Europe AD 400-1200 and will be held in Oxford on 5-6 July 2008. A call ...
Arts and humanities events calendar launched
2008-05-20 17:29:00 Intute: Arts and Humanities launched its new events calendar today, providing a database of upcoming conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and other events that you might be interested in: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities /conferences.html If you’ve used the Intute: Social Sciences section before you may have already come across the calendar, but it’s coverage has now been extended to include arts and ... More About: Events , Event , Calendar
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat
2008-05-19 11:46:00 “And strange to tell, among that earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried - Who is the Potter, pray, and who the pot?“ Leyden, Netherlands, 6th and 7th July, 2009 Cambridge, England, 9th and 10th July, 2009 This week-long conference running consecutively in Leyden and Cambridge, will celebrate the the 200th anniversary of of the ... More About: Edward , Omar
Butterfingers!
2008-05-16 10:48:00 It’s always satisfying to hear about other people’s botched jobs, but the news today that highly trained art handlers at London’s National Gallery broke a valuable (and publicly owned) Sienese Renaissance panel painting by Domenico Beccafumi is perhaps not that funny - certainly for whoever was unfortunate to have been taking it down from the wall. ...
Her Make is Perfect
2008-05-15 18:12:00 A seminar interrogating women’s dramatic writing, text and performance (1600-1830) is planned for September 2008, at the University of Surrey. Elizabeth Hartley (1751-1824) image from the conference website Friday 5th September at Chawton House Library and Saturday 6th September at the University of Surrey. Keynote speakers: Professor Alison Findlay Professor Fiona Ritchie and Professor Gweno Williams Further conference details see the ... More About: Literature , Event , Classics , Linguistics , Make
Limelight: Castles in Wales
2008-05-14 23:40:00 Intute’s latest Limelight provides links to valuable Internet resources about castles built in Wales during the rule of the English king Edward I. Image of Rhuddlan Castle, North Wales, from original photograph by ‘Deathwaves’, some rights reserved under Creative Commons. More About: Castles
Seminar on Sir Thomas Blake Glover, Aberdeen
2008-05-14 16:01:00 A major seminar on the 19th century Scottish trader and entrepreneur, Sir Thomas Blake Glover , will be held at Robert Gordon University’s Aberdeen Business School, 5.30-7.30p.m. on Tuesday 10 June. There will be two presentations: Professor Brian Burke-Gaffney of Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, on “Thomas Blake Glover: Entrepreneur extraordinary and his influence ... More About: Event , Seminar
Turner prize nominees
2008-05-14 11:17:00 The Turner Prize nominations have been released. Awarded to a British-based artist under the age of 50 for a work that was created in the last twelve months, this year the list is dominated by women. The artists are: film and video artist Runa Islam, multimedia artist Mark Leckey, who uses performance and sculpture in his work, ... More About: Event
Dating the human colonisation of America
2008-05-13 05:37:00 In the latest issue of Science (5877) there are two important articles on Pre-Clovis dates obtained in America . The first article by Dillehay et al. focuses on Monte Verde, Chile, and the recent discovery of nine species of algae in the archaeological record (sediment from hearths and sediment attached to stone tools). The ... More About: Dating , Archaeology , Human
Call for papers: MindTrek conference 2008
2008-05-12 15:41:00 11th MindTrek conference 2008 : Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era, October 7th-9th, 2008 Tampere, Finland MindTrek, a leading Northern new media festival and conference series, is running a three day conference to explore current and emerging topics of social media, ubimedia and games. It includes a workshop day, three main tracks, plenary sessions and invited ... More About: Call , Papers , Conference
Experimental Archaeology conference
More articles from this author:2008-05-10 15:11:00 The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Experimental Archaeology. The conference will be held over the weekend of 15th-16th November 2008 and will comprise a day of papers and discussions at the Archaeology building on Saturday followed, on Sunday, by a trip ... More About: Conference 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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