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Tuesday 18 December 2012

• Dame Lynne Brindley awarded honorary doctorate at the School’s 2012 graduation ceremony

  

  Dame Lynne Brindley, DBE was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa at the School’s graduation ceremony on Saturday 15 December 2012.  The honour recognises a lifetime of achievement in the support of world-class research by Dame Lynne Brindley. As Chief Executive of... read more

Friday 14 December 2012

• AHRC Student-led Collaborative Skills Development award

  

  Cynthia Johnston, an AHRC-funded PhD student in the Institute of English Studies, has been awarded an AHRC Student-led Collaborative Skills Development award. The aim of her twelve-month project is to stage an exhibition of ten manuscripts and early printed books from the R.E. Hart Collection of... read more

• Paul Archbold’s Nine Memos to be broadcast on BBC radio 3’s Hear & Now programme

  

  Following a masterly performance by the Arditti Quartet at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Paul Archbold’s Nine Memos will be broadcast on the Hear & Now programme, BBC Radio 3, Saturday 15 December at 10.30pm. “Each of Archbold's continuously running short... read more

Monday 26 November 2012

• Professor Barry Smith announced as Leadership Fellow for the AHRC's theme of Science and Culture

  

  Professor Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, has been announced as the AHRC's Leadership Fellow for the theme of Science and Culture. Identified through the Future Directions consultation in 2009, the AHRC's themes... read more

Friday 23 November 2012

• SAS-SPACE downloads near 200,000 in two years

  

  Since its relaunch in November 2010, the School’s ePrints repository has had over 189,000 downloads, with more than 90,000 in the academic year 2011-12 alone. SAS-SPACE contains over 4,000 deposited items. SAS-SPACE is an institutional repository with a wider national mission to preserve and... read more