The seed for my presentation emerged from Mr Justice Ben Stevens’ eloquent Presidential address last year. In thanking him I reflected that we have taken for granted how, after 1969, while much of civil society failed to function, lawyers and doctors maintained the highest professional and ethical standards, with many developing national and international reputations. Most crucially, law and me...

So this small package arrives at my office, addressed to “Anniken Goldstein.” Two Goldsteins work in my office, my Bride/Empress and myself, so she took the liberty of opening it up, and extracting a Darth Vader head coffee cup from a carefully bundled straw package. There was no accompanying note; the return address indicated that none was needed. Everyone from my receptionist to my office man...

Why do leaders incorporate the principle of setting high expectations into their management philosophy? Effective leaders know that people tend to live up to the expectations set for them. Simply put, high expectations lead to high performance. Let me tell you a story about high expectations leading to high performance. A chief executive officer (CEO) was frustrated with one of her senior manag...

At the Faculty of Arts and Science at Linköpings universitet, research and doctoral studies are carried out within broad problem areas. Research is organized in interdisciplinary research environments and doctoral studies mainly in graduate schools. Jointly, they publish the series Linköping Studies in Arts and Science. This thesis comes from the Department of Child Studies at the Tema Institut...

At the beginning of each year, BiO takes the opportunity to thank its many reviewers for their contribution to the journal. The peer review process is the cornerstone of research publication in the biological sciences. As a publishing company, we are very aware that this vital component of the publication process is done, for free, by scientists worldwide. Whilewe can assist our reviewers in ev...