Book review, Review of Jane Dowson, 'Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology'.

The current financial crisis has prompted a widespread critique of existing conventional economics and deep dissatisfaction with varying aspects regarding the economics profession including teaching techniques. A reform of teaching practices within economics needs to be pre-requisited on intellectual diversity…

Editorial, The major advances made over the past few years in molecular and cell biology are providing a progressively more detailed understanding of the molecular pathways that control normal processes and become dysregulated in disease. This has resulted in the…

As a Research Ethics Committee (REC) Chair in the National Health Service (NHS), one of
the commonest amendments submitted for consideration by RECs relates to the need to
manage poor participant recruitment and the failure to meet recruitment targets. This

The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com, Aim  To identify Antarctic palaeoendemic taxa and their probable glacial refugia from regional groups of endemic species records.


Location  Antarctica.


Methods  We compiled a list of Antarctic non-marine invertebrates…

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Scourfield, P., 2010. A critical reflection on the involvement of 'experts by experience' in inspections.…

The araneofauna of the extreme Southern Hemisphere is highly impoverished and disharmonic. Four dead anthropogenic immigrant spiders have been collected from Antarctica while only 115 verified species from 26 families are reported on the islands of the Southern Ocean. Cluster…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which recent changes in the UK's higher education sector are likely to increase the level of competition and change the behaviour of UK higher education institutions.

Successive government policies have created a situation where most residential and nursing care is provided by the independent sector. It is in the nature of a marketized and privatized care system that homes will periodically close or change ownership. The…

Ecological restoration frequently involves setting fixed species or habitat targets to be achieved by prescribed
restoration activities or through natural processes. Where no reference systems exist for defining
outcomes or where restoration is planned on a large spatial scale, a…