Social science

Simon Underdown on the novel notion that four walls were key to our development as a species

Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for the White House. Elizabeth Cobbs enjoys an entertaining look at her and her predecessors

A captivating study of Canadians’ national game skates over one element, says Andrew Robinson

Experts in everything from accountancy to China and spirituality to skills strategies appointed fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences

Memoir of scholar who fought for recognition will strike a chord with many women, says June Purvis

Danny Dorling on the US failure to provide affordable housing for its citizens

Donald MacRaild on how the Scots see themselves and their place in the UK

Book of the week: Angelia Wilson on a call for us to take seriously our political responsibility for global poverty

Higher education must look beyond financial gain to help solve the Middle East crisis, says Zahir Irani

The UK’s first academic conference on hip hop comes straight outta Cambridge

Faith Nibbs on the tensions and accommodations between newcomers and locals in a small town

Novice sociological researchers will find encouragement and help in a programme of exercises whose insights are informed by a group of gorillas, Les Gofton says

Event with controversial King’s College London researcher Adam Perkins to be held at later date after ‘negative social media activity’

Luna Centifanti on the important role that emotions play in our ability to assimilate knowledge

Cait MacPhee on back-of-envelope calculations and other tools to assess value and assumptions

Broader-based education addresses concerns over graduate skills, conference hears

Scholars seeking to make a difference are let in on the secrets of engagement, says Richard Joyner

Rachel Bowlby traces how a school of literary thought and its major figures hit the big time

A study of the Fab Four’s legal woes reveals their naivety and reads like a thriller, says Martin James

Andrew Blake on a study facing up to the reality of working in the arts

Proportion of university staff training through Erasmus has more than doubled in six years, finds report

Giulia Miller on a study of anti-Semitism in the academy and the struggle of displaced scholars

Continuing conflicts will limit collaboration between universities in Iran and in neighbouring Gulf nations, says scholar

Persian migrants’ tales illuminate the attitudes and culture of Regency era, says Shahidha Bari

Danny Dorling on a study of predatory forces and questionable practices

Organising and agitating online can be a powerful mover of change, Ivor Gaber finds

Elizabeth Cobbs on an enlightening and alarming study of how the central state has had to fight for its legitimacy

Joanna Williams on a controversial academic’s interpretation of where the boundaries lie

Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema

We are sleepwalking towards virtual transparency after an oversharing binge, discovers Paul Bernal

Winner of the 2015 THE Most Innovative Teacher of the Year title emphasises benefits of international learning experiences

Major survey looks at experiences of 72,000 UK postgraduates

Egypt is route to exploring how modern politics privileges beliefs of majorities, finds Bård Kårtveit

Vladimir Tismaneanu on a study of one man’s journey from ‘Homo Sovieticus’ to ‘Homo Antisovieticus’

Simon Underdown relishes an engaging study of evolution that delights in breaking the fourth wall

Book of the week: Economic instability is inevitable – what matters is our efforts to limit it, says Victoria Bateman of L. Randall Wray's latest book

New research initiative is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, if not the world

Research organisations who previously worked with the troubled children’s charity have sought to clarify ‘misleading’ descriptions of clinical work

There may be ideas for research here, but less in the way of practical lessons for busy managers, says Helga Drummond

The real-life versions of Philip Marlowe were more likely criminals than heroes, says Sharon Wheeler

There are insights for scholars and law enforcement officials alike in this investigation of how the most lethal lone-wolf attack was planned, says Matthew Feldman

Book of the week: A shared sense of precarity is at the heart of recent disparate mass protests, says Mary Evans

Former Nuffield Foundation director Sharon Witherspoon says the disciplines face many challenges

Better training will help communities to prevent and deal with consequences of procedure, says vice-chancellor

Settlers will study course on ‘life stories’ led by University of East London academic

'Confrontational policies' will have long-term consequences on universities' international collaborations, claims academic

A small tax hike for the cream of 1 per cent could fund college for the poorest, says Danny Dorling

Marianne Franklin on a guide to help people escape the attentions of public and private bodies capturing and capitalising on our online actions

Wageningen University president and author of Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat on her appetite for good books, from Primo Levi to Claudia Roden.

Survey also finds that women do more work with the general public than male researchers

Book of the week: Beneath a bourgeois veneer is a secret history of defunct jobs and fascinating lives, says Paul White

Increase led by growth in number of international students

An intellectual tag team helped to steal workers’ time, bodies and then souls, Philip Roscoe learns

Through a series of ‘creation stories’, E. Stina Lyon hears how individuals are breaking ground as they form families

Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose

Labour ex-minister criticises the view that UK ‘can’t afford English identity’

The latest detention of Miguel Ángel Beltrán is viewed by many scholars as an attack on academic freedom

Marcus Chown on a brief, critically important guide to economic literacy

A Welsh town’s Boiz, Geeks and Emos are in urgent need of new scripts, finds John Field

Cait MacPhee on personal accounts of gender trouble in the sciences