Hearing an ascending sound while pulling on a finger can make a person think that finger is longer than it actually is. That’s the finding of a new study led by the School of Advanced Study’s Centre for the Study of the Senses at the Institute of Philosophy ( IP ), and UCL.

Professor Bill Sherman, director of research and collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has been appointed director of the Warburg Institute at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with effect from 1 October.

Do audio guides help or distract the visitor from enjoying the artefacts in an exhibition? New research from the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, suggests that the debate misses a crucial component: how well do individual audio-tracks match the paintings.

The excitement of instant information from the internet for archivists and historians has been tempered by concerns about the shelf life of data — the so-called ‘black hole’ of lost material — and the rise of a new generation of ‘born digital’ government archives. For five days (12–16 June), academics, researchers, archivists, curators and IT developers from across the world will converge on London to address these issues at a Web Archiving Week event hosted by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the British Library.