"We try to combine the rigour of academic work – we work with data from non-partisan sources – with simple and entertaining presentation," says Piero Tortola, a postdoctoral researcher at Turin's Carlo Alberto College who combines academia with the work for the website.
"Through the interview process, we'll decide if [prospective employees] are fit for the rigours of working at Pixar.
Prevailing wisdom, it appears, is that, for Hodgson, leaving the rigours of working at The Hawthorns to lead England to the European Championship will be pretty much like sorting videos of All Creatures Great and Small into chronological order and trying to look enthusiastic when somebody walks in and hands over a carrier bag containing four moth-eaten cloth coat-hangers and a Jimmy Shand LP.
Although Marx approached capitalism as an economist and prided himself on the conceptual rigour of his work, Das Kapital especially the first volume is rich in empirical description.
Beyond the conference circuit, in the past week I was struck by the rigour of the work Kent county council is doing to understand and manage demand for social care across the county.
Despite the rigour of this work, the results are limited in capturing changes in underlying morbid disease.
When combined with commonly-voiced concerns that many students entering higher education are ill-equipped for the rigour of academic work, the need for active efforts to support these at-risk students is clear.
Despite the high-minded rigour of his own work, McBurney isn't allergic to pop culture.
True, these new works are unlikely to have the pop-song hook of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, nor, perhaps, the atonal rigour of Harrison Birtwistle's work.
The award is a sign of the intellectual rigour of Foley's work that brought together a critique of the canon, archival research, including his own Asio files, and his personal insights and reflections.
