Oxford University Press is delighted to make the prestigious publications of the British Academy available online. At launch, British Academy Publications Online (BAPO) will offer readers access to the full text of 100 print titles comprising both of monographs and collections of essays.  Among those included are Vernon Bogdanors The ...

A new round of Newton International Fellowships - an initiative to fund research collaborations and improve links between UK and overseas researchers - has now opened. The Newton International Fellowships are funded by the British Academy and the Royal Society and aim to attract the most promising early-career post-doctoral researchers ...

Research led by Professor Robin Dunbar of Oxford University suggests that the number of friends people have is related to the size of their frontal lobes, the Metro reports. The study shows 'a link between the ability to read how other people think and social network size', said Professor ...

Economist Professor John Kay examines the monetary implications of  Scottish devolution in the Financial Times, and considers the case for a treaty to secure a currency union with England.

Professor Graham Furniss will give evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on 1 February 2012, as part of its inquiry into science and international development.  The Academy submitted written evidence in December 2011, available on the research and higher education policy page.

High Court Judge, Sir Robert Cranston, will deliver the 2012 Queen Mary Law and Society Lecture on 1 March in the Mathematics Lecture Theatre at Queen Mary, University of London in Mile End Road.  The lecture, Judges, politics and the state: the judicial role, begins at 6.30pm. Email lawevents@qmul.ac.uk ...

As part of his research into the condition of autism, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge, Simon Baron-Cohen, is exploring growing evidence that parents who are 'systemisers', such as hard science graduates, are more likely to have a child with autism.  

Tony Judt, who died in 2010, is the subject of a new book Thinking the 20th Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the 20th C, the result of interviews with Timothy Snyder, carried out in the last year of his life. (Heinemann)

The distinguished philosopher and well-known broadcaster, Lord Quinton, has been honoured by the creation of a tutorial fellowship in his name at New College, Oxford, funded by the Leon Levy Foundation. Professor Quinton died in 2010.

Professor Paul Brand has been appointed Professor of English Legal History at Oxford.