Humanities

Martin Cohen on how the failings of liberal democracies have affected every aspect of our lives

A study of the internet’s bullies and manipulators avoids the hard questions, says Tara Brabazon

Jane Shaw on the women’s rights activist who was inspired by the Bible

Robert Gellately on the effects of the second world war on the Nazi home front

Alun Evans highlights need to ‘be careful not to discriminate against the young’ in facing up to the challenges of diversity 

The rise in ‘kilo-authors’ and ‘gift authorship’ is causing the academy to rethink how it assesses the worth of academic publications

Barbara Graziosi on an ambitious and well-researched study

Sarah Waters on a fascinating yet deeply curious book that has triggered a public outcry in France

We talk to the new chancellor of the University of Westminster

Cultural differences can complicate relationships between international doctoral students and supervisors, Jack Grove hears

Emma Rees on the social networking origins of a 21st-century political movement

Helen Bynum on the unending battle to control one of the most infectious diseases in the world

Forgotten correspondence is vividly brought to life in a study of cultural links, says Henriette Louwerse

One in 20 respondents to NUS survey say they would have been better off not going to university 

A corpse is the starting point for a lively dissection of experiences big and small, says Jeremy Holmes

Donald MacRaild on a study analysing the movement’s influence from 1850 to 1950

A close look at a Hamburg paramilitary group teaches Victoria Harris something new about Nazism

The divine is absent in a study focused on our drive to build a better world, finds Keith Tester

Linnie Blake extols a study on films using the technology to tell their stories

A biography of the late Chinese leader details his long, complex career yet the statesman defies easy labels, says Kerry Brown

Study warns universities not to ‘police’ students’ lives and criticises absence of policies on sex work

Prestigious event will host official launch of the 2015-16 World University Rankings

The real Lord Byron was ‘a flabby, effeminate man who liked wigs’, finds Jane Darcy

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the complex thesis emerging from a study of the Histories

A study of private property reminds us to reflect on the things we don’t control, finds Jane O’Grady

Director of knowledge exchange hub says that the arts and humanities can play a key role in bringing creative companies and academics together

This study of an era of violent abuses of power ignores half of humanity, finds Jacqueline Broad

National histories can shape recollections of atrocities, discovers Robert Eaglestone

Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick become the first organisations outside the UK to gain an Athena SWAN charter mark for gender equality

A. C. Grayling’s ‘Oxbridge-style’ private college strikes agreement with post-92 institution

Independent Commission on Fees concerned by high write-off rate and impact on ‘squeezed middle’

More research spending needed, says head of Brazil’s innovation agency

Epigram editor Zaki Dogliani explores whether students would accept different prices for different courses

Dame Carol Ann Duffy among the 65 names announced

The life of an early career researcher is a challenging one, finds Catherine Fletcher, as she heads to city number six

Senior lawyer criticises Counter Terrorism and Security Act

Future of the 400-year-old Catholic college is uncertain after decision to leave federal university in 2018

The UK’s only national humanities research festival has announced funding awards to 41 universities and cultural organisations

Education is the best possible antidote to radicalisation, the academic set to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said

A well-known author and academic has suggested her students should “go back to the womb” if they can’t cope with the kind of disturbing material literature has always dealt with

The Institute of International Education has called on universities to host vulnerable artists. 

Young experts in everything from wartime France to the theme of the widow in British literature have been selected in this year’s cohort of New Generation Thinkers.

The memory of a Belgian heroine differed from the woman herself, Niamh Gallagher discovers

Separating the past from philosophy is the key to understanding the period, learns Caroline Warman

Richard J. Williams on an entertaining study that takes in Las Vegas, Jerusalem and the online worlds of Second Life

Tom Palaima on an examination of the conflicts that have been raging since the 1960s

The British statesman had a surprising interest in the affairs of Muslims, says Charles Townshend

Ashley M. L. Brown discovers that imagination is often perceived as the greatest threat of all

A counterfactual imagining of a fateful meeting in Munich raises some interesting possibilities, says Hasia R. Diner, but is it history?

Superheroes enliven a study of the history of red tape and how it shapes our lives, says Fred Inglis

Peter Wothers on a thoroughly researched examination of the connections between two different kinds of science

This examination of space exploration has its feet firmly on the ground, writes Monica Grady

Richard Larschan on an examination of the conflicting ‘emotional styles’ of two camps of poets of the 1950s and 1960s

Jane O’Grady on a collection that stresses the importance of creativity, beauty and self-fulfilment

Les Gofton on a compelling study of a musical subculture

An overview of the action in Europe also examines present-day attitudes towards the conflict, says Niamh Gallagher

Liz Young discovers how failures in governance exacerbated the severity of historical famines

Tara Brabazon on an ethnographical study of the internet users who ‘swarm’ in order to cause maximum pain

A major figure’s rise and fall reveals a gap between discourse and reality, Barbara Graziosi finds

This valuable work sheds light on the building of an ‘international sisterhood’ to further the struggle for women’s rights, says June Purvis