Dr Who, the Alien knitting pattern, and the BBC

Copyright crops up in some strange places - read this Times Online news item!

Postgrads - get some help up that Academic Ladder!

Visit Academiblog - an American blog offering focussed help on time management, getting that dissertation written, and getting on in your academic career.

Also - you can visit the website or sign up for more detailed help - the same consultant offers you academicladder.com.

Electronic Visualisation and the Arts - conference

Whittaker Live has just been notified of this potentially very exciting conference:-

22-24 July 2008

British Computer Society, London WD2E 7HA

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REGISTRATION OPEN: Registration and outline programme

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Quick! The Early Bird rates close on 31st May!

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EVA London 2008 will debate the issues, discuss trends and demonstrate the digitial possibilities in:

• Performing arts
• Visual arts
• New technologies
• Interactive media
• Museums, archives and galleries

If you are interested in the new technologies in the cultural sector – if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, audience evaluator or educator – this conference is for you.

The outstanding EVA programme is online now. Details coming soon.

PhD Comics

"What?!"

Yes, that's right. PhDComics - it's a website run by Jorge Cham, and you can hear him at Glasgow University this Thursday lunchtime. Do go and hear him. I can't make it - tell me what it was like!

Here's what the Uni says about the event:

The Researcher Development Initiative proudly presents Jorge Cham, author of PhD comics. www.phdcomics.com. Jorge will be speaking on Thursday 15th May at 1pm-2pm in the Joseph Black Building B419, University of Glasgow. This is a chance for researchers to hear about Jorge's alternative (and hilarious) take on life in academia.

Steve Forman reviewed by Graham Fraser

Did you read the Herald review of Steve Forman's The Clydean Coronaries last week?

Row over funding of city's film industry

Stewart Paterson writes in the Herald today about the dire need for funding in Glasgow's film industry.

How to plan a piece of research

An article from those helpful people at jobs.ac.uk.