Book awards fuel BA's image as old boys' club

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The row surrounding the contention that the British Academy (BA) is guilty of "old boys' favouritism" has intensified with the discovery that all three of the prestigious book prizes awarded by the academy this year have been awarded to BA fellows, and that out of 2002's 16-strong shortlist, not one female academic was included. Marilyn Strathern, mistress of Girton College, Cambridge and a BA fellow since the 1980s, who sat on the five-strong 2002 prize judging panel, believes that the academy should review its procedures as a result of the scrutiny being afforded its decisions.

Analysis, Achievements and awards, Learned institutions and societies, Learned societies, British Academy

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Art book put on hold after row over ideas

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Publication of the book Irish Masculinity and Neo-Expressionist Painting by Michael Pinfold, film studies lecturer at Gloucestershire University, has been put on hold following allegations that the author based it on ideas of a former PhD student in his department. Pinfold has said it is all his own work but plans to properly acknowledge early conceptual input from Brian Curtin.

Patents & copyrights, Plagiarism, Intellectual property, Artists' books, Art books

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'Anon' brings campus to book

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Much intrigue is expected over the identity of the author of A Campus Conspiracy, published this week, and also the identity of the institution on which the fictional St Sebastian's University in the book is based. The book raises many issues and is published by Impress Books.

Influence, Books, A Campus Conspiracy (Book)

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