¹û¶³Ó°Ôº in the media
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Professor John Mullan (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº English Language & Literature) discusses the use of natural description in Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain'. Read:
Call for greater flexibility on retirement
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº President and Provost, Professor Malcolm Grant, argues that universities should face up to changing life cycles and the end of the default retirement age of 65.
Curbs on visas 'will stop brightest academics coming to work in UK'
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº has urged the Government to reconsider plans to impose a five-year limit on visas for academic staff from outside the EU.
There may be trouble ahead in Northern Ireland
Following early summer rioting in both the republican (Catholic) and loyalist (Protestant) parts of Belfast, tensions continue to simmer in Northern Ireland, says Dr Neill Lochery (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Hebrew & Jewish Studies).
Oxfam pioneers 'Facebook of Things'
Speaking at the British Science Festival Dr Andy Hudson-Smith highlights the experimental 'Tales of Things' project being developed at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Read:
Listen: (34mins)Joanna Trollope to rewrite Jane Austen
Professor John Mullan (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº English Language and Literature) thinks plans to rewrite Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility are part of a "time-honoured literary genre".
Richard Hamilton dies aged 89
Richard Hamilton, British painter, pioneer of the 'Pop Art' movement and alumnus of the Slade School of Fine Art at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº dies at the age of 89.
Ìý More coverage: The Independent, Daily Express, New York Times, The Australian, The Times (£), The Straits TimesRoyal Society announces Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Professors Mark Maslin (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Geography), Max Telford (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Genetics, Evolution & Environment) and Jonathan Tennyson (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Physics & Astronomy) receive prestigious awards from the Royal Society.
Dinosaur planet
Ahead of the BBC's new 'Planet Dinosaur' series, Dr Paul Upchurch (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Earth Sciences) highlights the importance of recent fossil discoveries and explains how they hold clues to the future on Earth.
, Listen: BBC Radio 5Live's 'Breakfast', BBC Radio Scotland's 'Good morning Scotland'Growing fears woman kindnapped in Kenya might be in Somalia
Following the kidnap of a British woman in Kenya, Dr James Thompson (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) discusses the psychological impact on victims of kidnap. Watch: BBC 1's 'Breakfast' (no link available)