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"Naked scientist" and Cambridge academic Chris Smith has won the Kohn Award from the Royal Society for his work in bringing science to a wider audience. Dr Smith is a clinical lecturer and specialist registrar in virology at the University of Cambridge, and he also works as a science communicator, fronting the UK's only local radio programme devoted to science. Under the guise of "The Naked Scientists", Dr Smith and his team of physicians and researchers based in Cambridge strip science down to its bare essentials every week on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. The Kohn Award gives Dr Smith a grant of Pounds 7,500 for further science communication projects, along with a medal and a cash prize of Pounds 2,500.
Paul Coyle has been appointed executive dean at the University College for the Creative Arts. He has been a manager of art and design education in the UK for 17 years and is currently responsible for leading the portfolio of courses at further education, undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University College's Epsom and Farnham campuses. He also leads enterprise and research activities through four research centres: the Anglo-Japanese Textile Centre, the Animation Research Centre, the Centre for Sustainable Design and the Crafts Study Centre. In addition, Mr Coyle is a member of the executive group of the UK's Council for Higher Education in Art and Design.
A professor from the University of Hull's Business School has been appointed to an advisory committee of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which aims...