Book Reviews: Self-confident engineer

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-325 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Western Railway ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
Labour Disputes ◽  
The University ◽  
Civil Engineers

Adrian Vaughan, Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight Errant . John Murray, paperback, 1993, £12.99 (first published 1991). ISBN 0-7195-5282-6. The extensive Brunel archive, held mostly by the Institution of Civil Engineers in London and the University of Bristol, has provided so rich a mine of material that biographers have felt little need to seek other sources. Adrian Vaughan has set out to redress this condition; he tells us that he was provoked by a passage in the ‘standard biography’ by L.T.C. Rolt ( Isambard Kingdom Brunel , Penguin Books), ‘No strikes or labour disputes marred the building of the Great Western’ (railway), which he knew to be untrue. His book has therefore a somewhat wider aim than that to which it may be compared, Thomas Telford's Temptation by Charles Hadfield (Cleobury Mortimer 1993), largely concerned with adjudication on Telford v Jessop.

Practice as Research in Performance: a Personal Response

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Bella Merlin
Keyword(s):  
Joint Production ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Performance Project ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Implications

The second conference called by the organizers of the ‘Practice as Research in Performance’ project (PARIP) was held from 11 to 14 September 2003 at the University of Bristol. PARIP is not an organization, but an AHRB-funded research project into the nature and academic implications of performance practice as research, in terms both of the discipline of Drama and Theatre Studies in the university, and the related issues of research assessment and funding. Its conferences aim to give academics in the field the opportunity to add their voices to the debate, and indeed to help shape its outcome. Bella Merlin, a Contributing Editor and Book Reviews Editor for NTQ, is author of Beyond Stanislavsky (Nick Hern Books, 2001). She attended the PARIP conference on the cusp of her personal decision to return to the acting profession from her post in the University of Birmingham, and as this issue goes to press is appearing in the Out of Joint production of David Hare's The Permanent Way. Here she combines a report on the conference with some personal reflections on practice, research, and practice as research.

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-436
Keyword(s):  
Programming Model ◽  
Economic Modeling ◽  
State Control ◽  
Discrete State ◽  
Likelihood Functions ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
Inference Methods ◽  
The University

Robert M. Sauer of the University of Bristol reviews “Economic Modeling and Inference” by Bent Jesper Christensen and Nicholas M. Kiefer. The Econlit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Graduate-level textbook explores how to combine modern economic theory with the latest statistical inference methods to get the most out of economic data. Discusses components of a dynamic programming model; discrete states and controls; likelihood functions for discrete state/control models; random….”

Book Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-591
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mechanism Design ◽  
Incentive Compatibility ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Dynamic Mechanism Design ◽  
Temple University ◽  
The University ◽  
Robust Mechanism Design

Dimitrios Diamantaras of Temple University reviews “An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design,” by Tilman Börgers. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents explanations of classic results in the theory of mechanism design and examines the frontiers of research in mechanism design in a text written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics who have a good understanding of game theory. Discusses screening; examples of Bayesian mechanism design; examples of dominant strategy mechanisms; incentive compatibility; Bayesian mechanism design; dominant strategy mechanisms; nontransferable utility; informational interdependence; robust mechanism design; and dynamic mechanism design. Börgers is Samuel Zell Professor of the Economics of Risk at the University of Michigan.”

In Conversation on the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-383
Author(s):  
Rachel Clements ◽  
Sarah Frankcom
Keyword(s):  
Caryl Churchill ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The University ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
The Way ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

Sarah Frankcom worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester between 2000 and 2019, and was the venue’s first sole Artistic Director from 2014. In this interview conducted in summer 2019, she discusses her time at the theatre and what she has learned from leading a major cultural organization and working with it. She reflects on a number of her own productions at this institution, including Hamlet, The Skriker, Our Town, and Death of a Salesman, and discusses the way the theatre world has changed since the beginning of her career as she looks forward to being the director of LAMDA. Rachel Clements lectures on theatre at the University of Manchester. She has published on playwrights Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp, among others, and has edited Methuen student editions of Lucy Prebble’s Enron and Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange. She is Book Reviews editor of NTQ.

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