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Globalisation can be good By Grace McCann, (The Independent, 2nd May 2002) Not everyone is keen on globalisation. Some see its effects as dangerous. But for Dr David Pilsbury, chief executive of the World Universities Network, it offers huge potential for university research, and in this respect should be encouraged. This week he announced that 50 young researchers, PhD students and post-doctoral workers from the United Kingdom and the United States are crossing the Atlantic in the network's first exchange programme. The idea is to focus on fast-growing, globally important areas of research that depend on collaboration between disciplines and institutions. Climatology, bioinformatics (the study of the data produced by biologists) and nanotechnology (the study of atomic-scale and molecular-scale devices) are priority areas. "We can reach a critical mass from pooling resources on a global basis," David Pilsbury says. "For example, in bioinformatics, there are currently not enough people in Britain who...

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