Images of Britain: Mass-Observation 1937-2003

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Dorothy Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

The papers generated by the research organisation ‘Mass-Observation’ provide a unique and insightful account of everyday life in the UK, documenting the years from 1937 until the mid-1950s. Using a variety of research methods (including in the early years photography and painting), Mass-Observation set about recording the lives of people throughout the country. In 1981 a new version of Mass-Observation was launched, based in the original Archive at the University of Sussex. Hundreds of volunteers record their own lives mostly in writing but also sometimes in images, in response to a variety of themes sent to them by the Archive. Research access is possible to both early and recent material.

Joan Mary Anderson 1932–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Peter Horton ◽  
Wah Soon Chow ◽  
Christopher Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Thylakoid Membranes ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Lifetime Achievement ◽  
National University ◽  
Jan Anderson ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Molecular Organisation

Joan Mary (Jan) Anderson pioneered the investigation of the molecular organisation of the plant thylakoid membrane, making seminal discoveries that laid the foundations for the current understanding of photosynthesis. She grew up in Queenstown, New Zealand, obtaining a BSc and MSc at the University of Otago in Dunedin. After completing her PhD at the University of California, she embarked on a glittering career at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and then Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. Not only a gifted experimentalist, Jan was a creative thinker, not afraid to put her insightful and prophetic hypotheses into the public domain. Her many notable achievements include establishing the details and the physiological significance of lateral heterogeneity in the distribution of the two photosystems between stacked and unstacked thylakoid membranes and the dynamic changes in the extent of stacking that occur in response to changes in the light environment. Her investigations brought her into collaboration with prominent researchers throughout the world. Recognised with many honours as a leading scientist in Australia, international recognition included Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Photosynthesis Research, and Honorary Fellowships at Universities in the UK and USA.

scholarly journals Eleanor Margaret Burbidge. 12 August 1919—5 April 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneila I. Sargent ◽  
Malcolm S. Longair
Keyword(s):  
San Diego ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Element Abundance ◽  
Unconscious Bias ◽  
Happy Marriage ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Margaret Burbidge was one of the great observational astronomers of the twentieth century. She had a natural aptitude for instrumentation, observation and the interpretation of spectroscopic data, coupled with an instinct for making optimum use of the observing facilities to which she gained access. Following her rigorous training in observational astrophysics and managing the University of London Observatory, she and Geoff Burbidge (FRS 1968), whom she married in 1948, led a peripatetic life for the following decade or more. During this time they made their most important pioneering contribution to astrophysics through their collaboration with Willy Fowler and Fred Hoyle (FRS 1957) on the origin of the chemical elements. Their famous and comprehensive B 2 FH paper of 1957 described the numerous nuclear processes that led to the synthesis of the heavy elements in stars, with element abundance values supported by decisive observational evidence. They went on to the University of Chicago/Yerkes, making pioneering observations of the kinematics of galaxies. In 1962, they both became tenured professors at the University of California at San Diego, their base for the rest of their careers. There, they were at the heart of the exciting early years of unravelling the properties of quasars, writing the first monograph on these objects in 1967. After an unhappy brief episode as the first woman director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the UK, Margaret returned to San Diego, where she played a major role in the construction and exploitation of the faint object spectrograph of the Hubble Space Telescope, specializing in the study of the absorption line spectra of quasars. Most of her early papers were co-authored with Geoff, who supported her in every way throughout their happy marriage. In her understated way, she became a role model for women astronomers, breaking down the conscious and unconscious bias against women she encountered throughout her career. Margaret led by example and made every effort to support future generations of women astronomers.

GRAZING STUDIES FOR GRASSLAND SHEEP SYSTEMS AT THE HILL FARMING RESEARCH ORGANISATION, U.K.

1984 ◽  
pp. 184-189
Author(s):  
J. Hodgson ◽  
T.J. Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Perennial Ryegrass ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Hill Farming ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Hill

Studies in the UK on continuously stocked swards dominated by perennial ryegrass show that both net herbage production and lamb output per hectare are maximised when herbage mass is maintained at 1200-I 500 kg OM/ha (3-5 cm surface height) during the main season of growth. The use of this information to define sward management objectives is outlined, and the incorporation of these objectives into the spring and summer phases of a grassland sheep enterprise is illustrated

The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-245
Author(s):  
Winton U. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

The Germans and their Jewish Neighbors on the Ukrainian Areas at the Second Half of the 19th Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
D. Meshkov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
South West ◽  
Multiethnic Population ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents some of the author’s research results that has got while elaboration of the theme “Everyday life in the mirror of conflicts: Germans and their neighbors on the Southern and South-West periphery of the Russian Empire 1861–1914”. The relationship between Germans and Jews is studied in the context of the growing confrontation in Southern cities that resulted in a wave of pogroms. Sources are information provided by the police and court archival funds. The German colonists Ludwig Koenig and Alexandra Kirchner (the resident of Odessa) were involved into Odessa pogrom (1871), in particular. While Koenig with other rioters was arrested by the police, Kirchner led a crowd of rioters to the shop of her Jewish neighbor, whom she had a conflict with. The second part of the article is devoted to the analyses of unty-Jewish violence causes and history in Ak-Kerman at the second half of the 19th and early years of 20th centuries. Akkerman was one of the southern Bessarabia cities, where multiethnic population, including the Jews, grew rapidly. It was one of the reasons of the pogroms in 1865 and 1905. The author uses criminal cases` papers to analyze the reasons of the Germans participation in the civilian squads that had been organized to protect the population and their property in Ackerman and Shabo in 1905.

National Astronomy Meeting, Portsmouth (United Kingdom), 23rd–26th June, 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-137
Author(s):  
Pamela Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Solar Physics ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Physics Community ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Around six hundred astronomers and space scientists gathered at the University of Portsmouth in June 2014 for the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM). NAM is one of the largest professional astronomy conferences in Europe, and this year’s gathering included the UK Solar Physics annual meeting as well as attendance from the magnetosphere, ionosphere and solar-terrestrial physics community. Conference tracks ranged from discussion of the molecular universe to cosmic chronometers, and from spectroscopic cosmology to industrial applications of astrophysics and astronomy.

MOBIS-COVID19/06: Results as of 11/05/2020

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Molloy ◽  
Christopher Tchervenkov ◽  
Thomas Schatzmann ◽  
Beaumont Schoeman ◽  
Beat Hintermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Daily Mobility ◽  
The University ◽  
At Home

To slow down the spread of the Coronavirus, the population has been instructed to stay<br>at home if possible. This measure consequently has a major impact on our daily mobility<br>behaviour. But who is being affected, and how? The MOBIS-COVID-19 research project,<br>an initiative of ETH Zurich and the University of Basel, is a continuation of the original<br>MOBIS study. The aim of the project is to get a picture of how the crisis is affecting<br>mobility and everyday life in Switzerland.

The Early Years of Republic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar
Keyword(s):  
Educational Development ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
British Raj ◽  
University Development ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Education In India ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University

The chapter is a prologue to the main narrative of the book. It offers an evaluation of Macaulay’s minute which paved the way for introduction of modern education in India, the idea of National System Of Education which dominated Indian thinking on education for over sixty years from the Partition of Bengal (1905) to the Kothari Commission (1964), and the division of responsibility between the Central and Provincial Governments for educational development during British Raj. It offers a succinct account of the key recommendations of the landmark Sarjent Committee on Post-War Educational Development, the Radhakrishnan Commission on University Development, and the Mudaliar Commission on Secondary Education, of the drafting history of the provisions relating to education in the Constitution, the spectacular expansion of access after Independence, the evolution of regulatory policies and institutions like the University Grants Commission (UGC), and of the delicate compromise over language policy.

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