What I’m doing differently this year
From dedicating time for brainstorming to taking inspiration from their dog, five writers explain how they are changing their approach to academia and life as another academic year begins in the...
From dedicating time for brainstorming to taking inspiration from their dog, five writers explain how they are changing their approach to academia and life as another academic year begins in the...
With hostility from the Home Office over international student numbers, membership of Horizon Europe slipping away and heavy demands placed on institutions by regulators, UK university staff will be...
All academics have had that anxiety dream about standing up to give a lecture, only to realise they have forgotten to prepare anything – or to put on any clothes. But real teaching failures are...
Emma Rees is impressed by a disturbing study of how universities largely fail to address their employees’ grievances
A new term is beginning in the northern hemisphere, and many campuses are reopening. But are academics relishing a return to relative normality or fearful of unvaccinated students? And what has the...
Not before time, the female partners whose intellectual contributions enhanced their husbands’ work get long-overdue credit, writes Emma Rees
Emma Rees enjoys a vivid if familiar exploration of changing attitudes to romance
Emma Rees praises a lively yet forensic analysis of systemic misogyny
Still on mute? Then let’s begin, says Emma Rees
Emma Rees applauds a detailed analysis of how women are sidelined in the art world – and how they can fight back
Book of the week: Emma Rees salutes a wide-ranging study of women who passed as men or found other means to serve in combat
Book of the week: Emma Rees praises a brilliantly wide-ranging study of the menopause across the centuries
Emma Rees is unconvinced by an attempt to shed new light on sexual conflict in the Bard’s works
The iconic dictionary’s misogynist descriptions of female genitalia were ripe for revision, say Emma Rees and Ellie Stedall
Emma Rees is impressed by a wide-ranging study of how governments have encouraged and discouraged citizens to have children