National HE STEM Programme Conference 4 – 6 September 2012 , Birmingham

Statistical Analysis for Next Generation Sequencing----Meeting Report

The boom of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology and its applications to a wide range of biomedical fields has brought about many computational and statistical challenges. The NHGRI funded small conference “Statistical Analysis for Next Generation Sequencing” was held September 26 -27 2011 in Birmingham, AL, to discuss these statistical challenges and strategies to tackle them. A total o...

National HE STEM Programme Project – Peer Assisted Learning: In and beyond the classroom A Literature Review of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL)

Sharpening the Health Policy Analytical Rapier; Comment on “The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy”

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. Second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...

Meeting report: British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) annual scientific meeting 2012, Aston University, Birmingham, 3rd to 4th July 2012

The focus of the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) annual scientific meeting 2012 was aging mechanisms and mitigants. The themes covered included epigenetics, stem cells and regeneration, aging pathways and molecules, the aging bladder and bowel, as well as updates from the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) programme. The topics incorporated new directions for staple aging research in ca...

JALDA's Interview with Professor Nigel Love

Nigel Lowther Love is associate professor of linguistics at University of Cape Town. He was born in 1950 in the U.K. He received his B.A. (1973), M.A. (1976) and D. Phil. (1976) from Oxford University. His Ph.D. thesis title was: The generative phonological analysis of non-vocalic alternations in Modern French. Nigel Love has been the invited lecturer or conference speaker at universities in: A...