Social science

Lee Harvey takes a critical look at an analysis of what education tests really say about students

Report says academic attitudes stymie efforts to build university brands. John Gill reports

Research councils see a rise in applications but fewer candidates are successful, writes Zoe Corbyn

Report author accused of being paedophile - and advised to go to Specsavers. Chloe Stothart reports

It's time to start exchanging gifts and sharing cultures with the digital natives who are our students, says Fintan Culwin

Lynne Segal on a study of sex behind bars that exposes enduring fault-lines in modern thinking

Paper says PhD is still the 'gold standard' despite rise of work-based study, writes Rebecca Attwood

Gerard Kelly, a former president of lecturers' trade union Natfhe, died of liver failure on 2 August at the age of 40.

A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise. Terence Kealey reveals how hypocrisy, violence and torture in the America of George Washington have helped create the US of George Bush

Ninety years after the suffragettes' first victory, June Purvis reflects on wars still being fought on behalf of women's rights

Nostalgia was once taboo in academe but a new generation is unafraid to explore longing and loss, says Alastair Bonnett

Academics welcome a new trend for undergraduate journals. Zoe Corbyn and Matt Rooney report

Isabelle Szmigin enjoys a romp through famous advertising slogans from the 1960s to the 1990s

The Olympics and sport in general give countries a way to engage with the world, says Grant Jarvie, a sports studies expert

Celia Deane-Drummond on where science meets religion

Joseph S. Nye is part of a long line of US academics who have helped shape foreign policy. A former Clinton adviser, now in the Obama camp, he tells Huw Richards how America can restore its tattered reputation in the world

It is time for the West to listen and learn from Muslim moderates and radicals alike, insists Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

Study reopens debate on differences in how men and women think, reports Olga Wojtas