Category Archives: Universities

Seattle and the Greeks

Posted on October 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Now in Seattle, at University of Washington. Slowly getting the infrastructure of life and work established, but dealing badly with West-coast jetlag. To be honest part of me is glad to be out of the UK as the comprehensive spending … Continue reading →

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Rumours of the cuts to come

Posted on October 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Rumours of the cuts to come to British Higher Education here and here. As I said in my immediate thoughts on the Browne report a few days ago (here), the the unsaid part of the report was the massive cuts coming in the comprehensive … Continue reading →

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The Browne Report

Posted on October 12, 2010 by stuartelden

The Browne report ‘Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education’ is here. The headlines loans for living costs; grants for families with below £60,000 income no upfront fees for tuition, these too funded by loans repayment of loans to start at … Continue reading →

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British Higher Education

Posted on October 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Nina Power does a helpful job of linking to/summarising the anticipation of the Browne review of British Higher Education, and particularly funding, here.

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Enough already

Posted on September 12, 2010 by stuartelden

With the Foucault endorsement I’ve now cleared the last review task outstanding. Counting journal articles, book manuscripts and proposals, promotions, and grants, I’ve done 27 reviews of some kind in 2010. (This doesn’t include anything related to the journal I edit.) That’s probably … Continue reading →

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More on the threat to the Warburg Institute

Posted on September 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Story in the New York Review of Books – thanks to Engin for sending this to me. I’ve already mentioned here before what a great resource The Warburg Institute library is, and the threat to its continued existence. I’ll be there later … Continue reading →

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Impact

Posted on August 26, 2010 by stuartelden

There is a forum in the journal Social Text on the notion of ‘impact’ in UK Higher Education. This is a key issue in the assessment of research, but the contributors range quite widely – Neil Smith compares US and … Continue reading →

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Middlesex philosophy lecturer job

Posted on August 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Yes, really. All the details are here – http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABO084/lecturer-in-philosophy/ I was going to write something in response – ten month post, very quickly into teaching, the context, etc. – but Christine Battersby has said it all on the Philosophy in Europe list … Continue reading →

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Roundup – publishing

Posted on August 22, 2010 by stuartelden

A couple of links of interest that both relate to academic publishing and the modern university Ian Bogost on Rice University Press being closed down and on the different printing models in publishing here (via Graham at OOP). Stanley Fish arguing … Continue reading →

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Postgraduate Research Associate post

Posted on August 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Three year post to work with Joe Painter at Durham, in “political geography with particular reference to  the geography of the state and citizenship, urban political economy, and socio-spatial theory”. Details here

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