Monthly Archives: June 2014

Successful bid for a new Teaching and Learning project

We are delighted to announce that Cindy Becker is one in a team of three which has been successful in bidding for a Teaching and Learning Development Fund maxi project (£30K over two years). She will be working alongside Emma … Continue reading

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Academic placements in 2013-14

As always, we were pleased to welcome a group of keen students to our part two Communications at Work module, and they undertook a range of placements across marketing, commerce, charities and journalism. In addition, all students can undertake academic … Continue reading

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Samuel Beckett’s Murphy notebooks on display today

We are proud to announce that for the first time in their history, Samuel Beckett’s six unpublished Murphy notebooks will be on public display within the Special Collections Service at the Museum of English Rural Life on Redlands Road today, … Continue reading

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The challenge of evolution in Victorian poetry

John Holmes’s essay ‘The challenge of evolution in Victorian poetry’ has just been published in Evolution and Victorian Culture, edited by Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon. This is the first book to take a look at the  significance of evolutionary thinking … Continue reading

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Swapping children

A piece by Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein commenting on the case in South Africa on two babies swapped at birth has been published in the Guardian’s ‘Comment for Free’ online publication. Professor Lesnik-Oberstein was invited to write the piece as a result … Continue reading

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