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The British Academy has announced five new research projects for 2012. The five new projects (selected from 33 proposals submitted) have been recognised for the excellence of their scholarship, and the promise and excitement of their programmes. The projects will be funded by the British Academy over the next few
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18 May 2012
New research released on 16th May by the British Academy Policy Centre, will ask: what really makes people change? In Nudging Citizens Towards Localism? leading academics Peter John (Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University College London) and Liz Richardson (Manchester University) call for more research and
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16 May 2012
The British Academy is pleased to see that todays report from the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Science and heritage: a follow up, recommends that DCMS appoint a Chief Scientific Adviser once again. Lord Krebs, speaking on behalf of the committee, said that For the
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11 May 2012
The British Academy welcomes the government's recognition of the value and importance of a period abroad within a degree programme. The government today announced that the current funding arrangements will continue under the academic years 2012-14 - after which HEIs will receive up to 40% of full fees
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3 May 2012
Today, the British Academy Policy Centre will publish a comparative overview of public service broadcasting in different parts of the world. The report gives an overview of the various ways in which public service broadcasting is structured and funded, and of the extent to which
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25 Apr 2012
The British Academy is launching a new book charting the development of obesity in affluent societies. Insecurity, Inequality and Obesity in Affluent Societies, edited by Professor Avner Offer FBA, Dr Rachel
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23 Apr 2012
A new report commissioned by the British Academy and released today highlights the potentially damaging effect of league tables and suggests they should be accompanied by appropriate and prominent 'health warnings'.By ranking schools, universities, hospitals and police forces they encourage the public to put pressure on those deemed to be
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29 Mar 2012
Concern is mounting that fewer UK students will take degree courses involving a year abroad because of the step change in tuition fees despite new research for the British Academy and the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) which demonstrates the huge benefits that a year spent studying or
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27 Mar 2012
The British Academy marked International Women's Day with an event celebrating women in the humanities and social sciences. Six women Fellows of the Academy spoke about the writers, artists, law scholars, economists, social reformers and campaigners who had inspired them including: Chrystal Macmillan, Beatrice Webb FBA, Rebecca West, Germaine Greer,
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9 Mar 2012
The British Academy today welcomed the publication of the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee report into the Role of Departmental Science Advisers, which calls for the Government to appoint a Chief Social Scientist.This is one of the peers key recommendations, and was urged by the Academy when
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2 Mar 2012
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