Social science

Mary Evans on proposals for achieving equal representation of women and men in university hierarchies

Course looking at ‘key security issue for East Asia’ part of major University of Central Lancashire investment in Korean studies

New plans focus on putting Hungarian higher education on solid international foundations

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

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

Report attributes decline to UK government trebling tuition fees 

Dame Carol Ann Duffy among the 65 names announced

Leeds Beckett researchers aim to maximise the impact of their knowledge

Just 13 per cent of open call applications to social science funder were successful in 2014-15

Report calls for desired graduate skill set in the field to be ‘clearly set out’

Disagreement among social scientists means that policies to tackle climate change remain contentious, write Mark Freeman and Ben Groom

Study reveals 'international experience' also popular among  leaders around the world.

A remarkable investigation into the global traffic in cheap shelf-fillers uncovers both meanness and meaning in the market, says Louise Crewe

Paul Bernal clicks with a maverick thinker who shows how business and governments are building a global surveillance network and how we can fight back

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

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

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

A tax rate of 67.5% is part of an economist’s plan to stem excessive inequality, finds Danny Dorling

Kathryn Ecclestone on a study examining the underside of the new fixation on inner feelings

Rising inequality can be addressed without taking to the barricades, Victoria Bateman suggests

The tales of a society on the margins and a researcher’s struggle to integrate into that society make for a readable account about real people, says Joy Hendry

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

E. Stina Lyon on a complex account of the trajectory of adult life in the modern world

Dick Hobbs on a study of a career criminal that demystifies gangs and a society that has tried to marginalise them

David Palfreyman on the effect that the forces of marketisation have had power dynamics within academia

Managers remain in thrall to bad ideas about how to run companies, learns Helga Drummond

A lupine alliance may have helped Homo sapiens to beat the competition, says Simon Underdown

Danny Dorling on an unusual study that reveals much about what is wrong with political culture

A study of American couples who married out of their socio-economic culture intrigues Mary Evans

Richard Joyner on the dwindling role of German and Russian in the communication of research

Robert Mayhew on how geographical texts of the early 18th century preferred an aesthetic of the ‘exotic’ over accuracy

A wide-ranging examination of garment recycling should whet the appetite of readers for more research on the subject, says Ruth Pearson

Thomas Docherty on a study of the academy today and working conditions

Jonathan Mirsky on the undistinguished qualities of a president who wants China to ‘learn from Chairman Mao’

Wherever you stand on the career ladder, this guide has fresh advice, says Sandra Leaton Gray

Is an innovative project reshaping the US academy to better serve society or undermining its foundations? asks Ferdinand von Prondzynski

Robert Lee Maril on a timely study of an important issue in the run-up to another US presidential election

A sensitive study of transgression breaks new ground for queer theory, says Rachel Moss

Is legal training fit for purpose? A global study asks all the right questions, says Caroline Hunter

Ursula King on a profile of the many faces of Islam in one country

This guide gets right to the heart of the virtues that make a scholar, Robert Eaglestone discovers

The big players in finance and technology misuse their power over our lives, says Paul Bernal

The use of gadgets to help students is only as effective as the pedagogical methods employed, finds Steve Wheeler

Miriam E. David urges scholars to engage with essays contributing to wider political debates

Vasilis Leontitsis weighs arguments for economic reform co-written by a scholar turned Syriza MP

John Barber on a powerful critique of Western policy

An engaging account of an unruly city, but why so little on Empire, wonders Danny Dorling

John Gilbey is fascinated by the unseen fibre-optic communications cables that gird the globe

Ferdinand von Prondzynski ponders an exploration of how universities should be led and by whom

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik baulks at the questionable assertions in a polemic about traveller communities

Joanna Lewis on the assassination of the nation’s first democratically elected leader

Laurence Coupe relishes inspiring reflections on the natural world’s relationship with language

Peter J. Smith on the literary giants who have drawn inspiration from their nocturnal perambulations

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the drama that formed and maintained Near Eastern civilisations

Top-down ideas narrow a New Labour architect’s vision of a brave new Britain, says Philip Roscoe

Lynne Segal on one woman’s efforts to revitalise a political force

This powerful polemic should be in every undergraduate’s welcome pack, says Mary Evans

Tony Mann discovers the charisma of mathematicians

A manual for ambitious executives is dangerously close to spreading neuromyths, says Steven Rose