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Association to Horizon Europe would also be positive, but hostile mood music over immigration still reverberates 

Oxford professor challenges his fellow geographers to reflect on their often myopic perspectives

Italian medic Fabio Quondamatteo says EU referendum result is behind ‘difficult and painful’ decision to leave for Ireland

Universities are rapidly expanding their student rolls, using their increased scale to invest, compete and insulate themselves against economic uncertainty. But at what cost, asks Ellie Bothwell

Elsevier could sell Dutch universities a bundle of journal access rights and software, raising concerns that universities could become stuck in one publisher’s software ecosystem

Fees reform has not quelled popular anger over exploitation, but academics can play a key role in constitutional reform, says Robert Funk

Tributes paid to ‘a brilliant, warmly sympathetic scholar-critic’ whose experience of war informed his work

More account must be taken of pregnancy, assisted fertility and miscarriage, say Christina Hellmich and Marina Della Giusta

Such skills can be learned relatively easily and cheaply. Universities should develop expertise in fields essential to human flourishing, says Andrew Moore 

Announcement by new government given cautious welcome by academics – although questions remain over funding and political independence

Management academics need to be supported to bring teaching and research on global warming into the mainstream, say Amanda Goodall and Susan Hill

Leading sociologist of inequality fears boosting the status of a select few universities could mean a closed educational elite, as in the US or France 

Esther Duflo aims to secure hearing for ‘ideologically diverse’ discipline in era of Brexit and Trump, hoping it becomes less ‘macho’

Tributes paid to an expert on the theory and practice of democratic politics whose ‘intellectual brilliance’ was matched by a strong ‘sense of scholarly camaraderie’

Tributes paid to ‘a committed visionary’ whose research and lobbying helped transform the Californian legal system

Academics’ deep identification with their work means that the failure of a book proposal, grant application or promotion request can cut deeply. But in a competitive profession, such knock-backs are inevitable. Here, six academics recall their most traumatic rejection – and how they got over it

Gender-fluid academic seeks to challenge the ways in which we carve up the world

Writer inspired by her childhood experiences of ‘belonging and not belonging’ is honoured alongside Margaret Atwood

Esther Duflo – the youngest ever economics Nobelist – shares 2019 prize with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer

Academic lawyers have helped to resolve legal puzzles, but wider engagement can be demanding and ineffective, says Kenneth Armstrong

Ever since it emerged from English departments in the 1970s, media studies has been routinely dismissed as the archetypal ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree. But in an era of fake news and media hegemony, has this multifaceted subject finally found its place in the zeitgeist?

Almost half of international academics in country believe they are wanted on campus only to ‘increase quantitative indicators of internationalisation’

Improved citation performance amid falling funding is the result of gaming, say Alberto Baccini, Eugenio Petrovich and Giuseppe De Nicolao

US study reveals that it’s not just a matter of how much sleep learners get – when they go to bed matters, too

Historically black colleges and universities in the US have never had the funding or the prestige enjoyed by many other institutions. Yet, argue Marybeth Gasman and Thai-Huy Nguyen, they may have much to teach us all about diversity

Tributes paid to a scholar whose passions ranged from Tamil Buddhism to Bob Marley

Caring duties and environmental responsibility do not signify a lack of commitment to scholarship, says Danielle George

A new humanities-based major focused on how global commerce, businesses and societies shape one another points the way forward, says Karen E. Spierling

Algorithms may simply lead to ‘self-fulfilling prophecies’ and do not give reasons for their decisions, Oxford researcher warns

Academic also claims European Commission officials told him UK coordinators would be kicked out in event of no-deal Brexit

Tributes paid to leading chemist who helped illuminate nature and properties of nanoparticles and nanoalloys

Using free online teaching materials instead of textbooks lessens student debt and sparks pedagogical innovation, says Steven Murphy

Lennard Davis’ recent THE article was wrong to dismiss the utility of subversion, says David Palumbo-Liu

Researchers need to find more indirect ways of promoting peace in an age of nationalism, conference hears

The pursuit of impact remains controversial, but it has opened doors to more varied careers, says Andrew McRae

Harvard professor says universities must take on responsibility for morality in a post-institutional and post-religious world

‘This is a regime that believes you should govern by clubbing people,’ says Frank Dikötter

Historic prompts on how to keep overbearing expectations at arm’s length should be taken up by modern academics, says Michael Marinetto

Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change

The current generation of students often come under fire for supposedly being excessively brittle and demanding. But does the reality bear that out, and what are the teaching techniques to which they respond best? Six scholars recount their own experiences and offer their tips

Kathryn M. Rudy considers the huge expenses of doing scholarly work in her field of art history

Tributes paid to ‘socially committed’ expert on Africa and the Mediterranean

Schools used to be more honest about the pupils they were putting forward to universities, and not all applicants were predictably ‘passionate’ about their subjects. We would do well to recreate some of that spirit, says Lincoln Allison

Individuals should be able to choose their own work-life balance depending on their life situation and level of ambition, says Lee Cronin

University campuses are microcosms of the universe and offer multiple opportunities to put abstract theory into action, says Peter Harper

Prison governor-turned-criminologist David Wilson tells Rachael Pells about befriending killers, doing unauthorised research and challenging his students’ preconceptions

Why are an ex-footballer’s views on the game worth so much while academic analysis of the news is worth nothing, asks Peter Wells

Pan-continental prosperity will suffer if the UK’s near-absence from the European University project is a sign of things to come, says Martin Paul

Those fired and imprisoned for signing a 2016 statement condemning Turkish military action still have a long struggle ahead, says Mehmet Ugur

Cultivating open-mindedness and intellectual humility is the best way to combat arrogance and insouciance, says Bethan Willis

A significant minority of tenured faculty spend their lives undermining others when they could be working for progressive change, argues Douglas Dowland

Tributes paid to a scholar with ‘empathy’ for understanding people of different faiths

Marking down fellowship applicants for being unwilling to move institutions can be deeply unfair, say Trisha Greenhalgh and Ed Hawkins

The ‘best’ scientists lack time for peer review, and academics should be rated for ‘worthy’ papers, argues Dan Shechtman

In the context of all the privations Palestinians suffer, international academic isolation is a terrible thing indeed, says David Palumbo-Liu

Tributes paid to a poet and scholar of medieval literature who ‘rendered the world brighter’

The Pulitzer winner discusses the lack of national alarm over the lives of black communities in the US and how art can help Americans overcome barriers of race

Summer is upon northern hemisphere academics. But its cherished traditional identity as a time for intensive research is being challenged by the increasing obligations around teaching and administration that often crowd out research entirely during term time. So is the 40/40/20 workload model still sustainable? Respondents to a THE survey suggest not. Nick Mayo hears why

Leiden University acted unlawfully, a court has ruled, in using anonymous letter to discredit an applicant for a professorship

Those lucky established academics who want to help precarious colleagues would do better to pay for their lunch, says Sarah Burton