Fewer casual staff and burdens of increased online teaching leave academics struggling with mounting workload and place question mark over future of traditional contractual arrangements
Springer Nature-Digital Science survey reveals that pandemic-hit researchers are more likely to return to old data, which some worry could lead to fraud
Bradley Garrett has crossed the globe to meet those who stockpile food in fortified shelters in anticipation of apocalyptic disasters. As a global pandemic seems to confirm some of their fears, he tells Jack Grove what we can learn from them – and what they’ve got wrong
Academic endorsements cast little light while entrenching privilege, says Vincent Hiribarren
The Research Australia report has exposed the fault lines in health research funding, says Ross Coppel
A. W. Purdue considers how Britain’s wartime prime minister was a lifelong master at keeping himself in the public eye
Universities' impact on local communities is vital to strengthen society, writes Ellie Bothwell
