Academics
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Other lives: Lecturer in the Burmese language who taught British diplomats and was involved in charity work with Aung San Suu Kyi
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Other lives: Leading specialist on east European history and on the culture of Welsh nationalism
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Other lives: Pioneering educational psychologist who sat on the committee of the 1978 Warnock report on special needs
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A record 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023. To find out what’s driving this trend, Ian Sample speaks to Ivan Oransky, whose organisation Retraction Watch has been monitoring the growing numbers of retractions for more than a decade, and hears from blogger Sholto David, who recently made headlines when he spotted mistakes in research from a leading US cancer institute.Podcast
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Brief letters: Best breakup songs | Damn fine film | Emeritus perks | Covid drama
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Brief letters: Medical effect of grapefruit | Brexit shoulder | Murderous Mozart | Emeritus professors | Rishi Sunak on the edge
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Letters: David Mead says there is a strong case that deducting pay may be unlawful as well as morally indefensible, while Prof Colin Bailey of Queen Mary University of London says it will not accept disruption to its students’ education
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Other lives: Lecturer who helped to set up a controversial social sciences degree course at the Open University
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Other lives: English lecturer at Warwick University who wrote a book analysing the writing of Sylvia Plath
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Arif Ahmed will face a balancing act when his position – that legal speech gets protected – runs into messy reality
I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why?