Social science

Academic salaries have increased by 12.6% in two years, but can the rises be sustained? Market differences are already beginning to show, with significant variations in pay between universities just miles apart. Hannah Fearn and Melanie Newman add up the figures (see related files on the right)

We’re enslaved by Crazy Frog capitalism – and the mobile phone is the symbol of our bondage, argues Tara Brabazon

Helen Wilcox is transfixed by the rolling and rollicking life of a saucy Grub Street manipulator

Kamilla Elliott devours many slices of a pie that has fascinated collectors and academics alike

Keith Tester goes in search of a 'more humane material life'

Academics are using social bookmarking sites to share papers and to track research. Zoe Corbyn reports

Sue Bridgewater sees the globalisation of English Premier League football as a positive step for the game and for fans

Whitehall's creative industries strategy is welcome, but where is its support for Britain's athletic endeavours, asks Simon Chadwick

Durham sacks academic after disciplinary tribunal upholds misconduct allegations. Tariq Tahir reports

Quality teaching, like quality research, requires funding input, say Russell Group chiefs Malcolm Grant and Wendy Piatt

Councils admit defeat in hunt for algorithm to show economic value of research, reports Zoe Corbyn

Paper says the prevailing student-first 'mantra' ignores tutors' strengths. Melanie Newman reports

The baby-doomers' lament

How those who conform deal with conduct unbecoming

Rónán McDonald lauds a fine British essayist

Jeremy MacClancy raises three cheers to a book that offers oft-neglected theories on the past