I thought I’d post this email I received asking for contributions to a survey for those of you working at a museum or gallery. I attended Ghufran’s PhD lunch, where PhD students give a one hour presentation on their research over lunch, last month. She is at an early stage in her research, but [...]

I’ve been looking at the job postings over at Jobs.ac.uk, and there are quite a few postings right now from universities from all over the UK and Ireland. Many of the starting lecturer posts, naturally, want someone to teach a foundation subject as well. So my question is, “What foundation subjects pair well [...]

The March issue of SCRIPT-ed is out, and contains a special issue entitled ‘Creating Commons’ based on the 2006 Unlocking IP conference held at the University of New South Wales, Australia at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre.

Today at the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law:
A conference organised by the British Academy and the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law (“the AHRC Centre”) at the University of Edinburgh. It follows the Academy’s Review of Copyright and Research and its subsequent publication [...]

We are offering two studentships at the Centre: One on human rights and technology and the other on media convergence.
Full details are available here. [Link].

From the San Francisco Chronicle, The promise and perils of tech transfer - Universities mull industry partnerships:
“I am deeply concerned that universities are continuing to run full speed down a path that is going to destroy the university as an institution for serving the public good,” said author Jennifer Washburn, whose book title [...]

Two very interesting posts from the International Economic Law and Policy Blog caught my eye.
In Globalization of NASCAR, Simon Lester comments on the first ‘foreign’ car entry into the US sport of NASCAR — Toyota. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, NASCAR has heretofore been limited (by tradition rather than explicit rules) to [...]