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If you think they’re out to get you, you’re not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought. Surveys of several thousand people in Britain, the US and elsewhere have found ...

A vivid and strikingly illustrated edition of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Powerful, moving, simple and forceful, the Declaration of Human Rights speaks to a common humanity – about hope, about ideals, about the sort of world we ...

Vertical drinking is a term that’s come into use recently in Britain and Australia to refer to the practice of drinking standing up in a crowded public bar. It’s usually associated with binge drinking, as it inevitably involves consumption of ...

Professor Peter Coaldrake, the vice-chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, is the chair-elect of Universities Australia for 2009-2011. Coaldrake has held the position of UA’s deputy chair during 2008, and will assume the responsibilities of chair for a two-year period ...

UniSA vice-chancellor Professor Peter Høj has been made an honorary doctor in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen in honour of his research career in plant biochemistry. The award was recommended by the university’s Department of ...

UNSW has announced the appointment of Jonathan Blakeman to the newly created position of executive director, finance and operations. He is currently director of administration at the University of Auckland, a position he has held since 1999, and was previously ...

Macquarie University has appointed Professor Gail Whiteford to the newly created position of pro vice-chancellor (social inclusion). Whiteford joins Macquarie from Charles Sturt University where, as well as being professor and chair of occupational therapy, she has held various roles ...

The Australian-American Fulbright Commission Board last week announced the appointment of Dr Joe Hlubucek as the new executive director for the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. Hlubucek was posted to the Australian Consulate-General in San Francisco in 1995-98 and to the Australian ...

Charles Sturt University has appointed Associate Professor Will Letts as the inaugural head of the CSU Ontario School of Education. Amid the success of the teacher education program at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Ontario, the first head of the ...

Charles Darwin University’s new executive director of finance and asset services Rob Brelsford-Smith comes to Darwin from New Zealand’s Auckland University of Technology (AUT), where he worked for the past nine years. Brelsford-Smith’s MBA focused on incorporating indigenous people into ...