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Feminism and the State in the Age of Austerity: 9th May 2012, 09:30-16:45pm, the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality

13/04/2012

A workshop with Avtar Brah - Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London; Davina Cooper - Kent Law School, University of Kent; Maria Drakopoulou - Kent Law School, University of Kent; Denise Ferreira da Silva - School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London; Maxine Molyneux -School of Advanced Studies, University of London; and Judith Squires - School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, reflecting on their intellectual and political journey in relation to the state question. RSVP by 16 April 2012 to klsresearch@kent.ac.uk.Click here for more information

Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution

13/04/2012

The Guardian reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge. ‘Academic publishers charge UK universities about £200m a year to access scientific journals, almost a tenth of the £2.2bn distributed to them by the government, via the funding councils, for the basic running costs of university research. Despite the recession, these charges helped academic publishers operate with profit margins of 35% or more , while getting their raw materials and the work of thousands of taxpayer- and charity-funded scientists free’. Click here for full article