Social science

Kate Riegle van West had to battle to bring her circus life and her academic life together

Contributors hope resource will encourage students to avoid ‘assimilationist’ mindset

Scholars are ‘doing as much as they can’ to promote critical thinking among students despite suppression of liberal thought, study claims

Book of the week: our distrust of female testimony in all its forms is proof feminism still has far to go, says Laura Frost

Sir David Bell fails to recognise the portrait of v-cs in a critique of neoliberalism in the US academy

After years of suppressing the renminbi, China strives for a global currency, says Anna Watson

Measuring learning gain via self-reporting is difficult as top graduates underrate abilities, suggests Futuretrack study

Medical scholar branded a ‘terrorist’ by Turkey over his alleged links to a US-based cleric is named head of an institution in Texas

International project to change curriculum helps UCL students avoid ‘sophomore slump’

Keep it brief, tailor to the job requirements and do not mention your hobbies. Our panel of top university administrators offer some tips on how to write a top-notch CV

Reading popular science articles causes non-scientists to overrate their expertise, research finds

Jack Grove asks whether Father Christmas could learn from recent ‘Santa studies’ research

Large-scale study at a top Danish university reveals mismatch between student and teacher expectations around learning

The Left are busy looking back instead of devising laws to address inequalities, says Danny Dorling

Britain got sober patriotism, purpose and more from its post-war leader, says Gordon Marsden

Martin Cohen on a study that strives to position a much-quoted thinker as a social geographer

David Wheeler finds reason for hope in a critique of the neoliberal academy that also offers sound ideas for reform

Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a study suggests

New analysis suggests university offers should take greater account of where students went to school

Vice-principal tells SRHE annual conference that arts and humanities scholars cannot suddenly shift area of focus to different cultural settings 

A study focused on Singapore’s Biopolis centre concentrates on various global ‘currents’ in bioscience, says Flora Samuel

Provost of Universitas 21 tells THE summit that universities must engage with institutions outside their elite groups

UK universities can now ‘feel confident’ in recruiting postgraduate students for 2017-18, says RCUK chair

Renowned chemist and administrator, known for his financial acumen and attention to detail, oversaw the creation of Cardiff University

The Universities Superannuation Scheme’s stake in former cluster bomb manufacturer Textron is an inappropriate use of savings, campaigners say

Five top European academics offer advice on how to mentor, manage and expand a research team

New rector warns against drawing students only from elite and making academics 'sheep with five feet'

Lengthy titles of journal papers are a turn-off for fellow academics and lead to fewer citations, claims new analysis 

Book of the week: From the black stuff to books, who gets the goods in a sharing and streaming era? asks Paul Bernal

London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs

Fictional professors from film, TV and literature have been reported to new watchlist of 'anti-American' academics

Students and lecturers join forces for a national demonstration over cuts, fee rises and the plight of EU staff and students post-Brexit

A new study shows computers outshine real-life academics when performing some scholarly research tasks

Researchers consider what it means for their safety and careers to work in dangerous or disparaged parts of the world

Work to attract more women into UK university engineering departments will be undermined by ‘beyond belief’ changes to A levels, senior academics claim

Book of the week: Political Svengalis, not the public, drive populist pantomimes of democracy, says Angelia Wilson

Jonathan Mirsky on a bleak but believable view of rampant corruption taking a country to the dogs

Senior academics and university administrators offer their top tips on how to ask that awkward question at the end of a job interview

Research into clairvoyant powers of mediums using old photographs has been retracted after it was ridiculed by scientists

The next US president’s scorn for American research bodies and his anti-climate change stance has worried many scientists

Collection of almost 500 videos looks at everything from planning to presentation

Cheap taxis come at a price but remodelling the online marketplace is an option, says Kylie Jarrett

'Nazi-era methods' targeting academia unacceptable, says Luxembourg's foreign minister

International linguists have decried a Hong Kong professor’s controversial claim that bias against non-native English speakers is ‘myth’ 

A UK university has been criticised for cancelling a guest lecture after a British academic refused to produce his passport

Politics scholar angered by what he claims was ‘ruthless’ attempt to discredit him by citing non-inclusion in UK’s research excellence framework

The university professor and former political prisoner compares his own iconoclastic impulses to Rhodes Must Fall movement

Marcus Chown on a deeply political study that explains why inequality exists and that while ending it will not be easy, it is not impossible

US bureaucrats are ignorant of the public’s views despite sharing similar outlooks, says Kori Schake

Myths about the impact of having a surname starting with a letter late in the alphabet have been debunked by a new analysis

Student artists at Staffordshire University have transformed academic research on graduate debt into a full-length comic

Book of the week: Universities pay lip service to minorities while maintaining the status quo, says Kalwant Bhopal

Repeal the Human Rights Act? A study explains why we would be mad to do so, says Rachael Ita

Book of the week: Working through university crushes US students. Laurie Taylor fears the UK will share their pain

Plugging a multibillion-pound deficit exacerbated by June’s poll result may require ‘drastic measures’, analysts have warned

Once upon a time, authors pushed young readers to see the world very differently, says Shelley King

Those who leave China to study are more likely to win jobs and promotion when they return, but local academics tend to take top administrative roles, analysis suggests

Training, bold interdisciplinary partnerships and ‘bridging skills’ are all essential for social scientists who want to make best use of all the data now available to them

Book of the week: E. Stina Lyon appreciates the social portraiture approach used to understand complex family roles

Catherine Clinton on the legacy of a marginalised group in a supposedly class-free society