From the role of students as catalysts for economic growth, to the social and cultural benefits of universities’ public exhibitions, findings have been revealed from the biggest-ever study of the...
The government must make clear its wider plans for universities before asking Parliament to vote for a higher tuition fee cap, the shadow business secretary has said.
In May 1968 the old order was upturned by marginalised contract lecturers. Today, the proliferation of online courses offers slow-track academics a similar opportunity to seize the scholarly high...
In the academy, the real argument over science and religion is not about God but rather about how social and natural scientists understand people. Martin A. Mills says we must bridge that gap to...
Some academics think the authors of historical fiction peddle myths, exploit their labour and wallow in sentimentality. But could dialogue between the two play a role in promoting public...
Gary T. Marx enjoys a trip down the information byways of everyday life that we like to keep hidden
Susan Fainstein's book is the result of some 20 years of intense research and thinking on the subject of the "just city", and it seems likely to me to become something of a classic. It provides an...
I was a master's student in sociology when I first read Julia Lawton's powerful account of her ethnographic study of a hospice. In The Dying Process, she detailed her observations of residents'...
Michelle Baddeley reads a 'fantastic' account of how our collective mood can influence the world
The quality of detection", someone may have said, "droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven into every genre of literature." Indeed, given the general presence of the idea of detection in English...
Classed Intersections is the outcome of five years of reflections on the theme of "Our working-class lives", a debate that drew together "new researchers" from a range of disciplines to explore why...
Mark Neal's delight in an exciting assessment of the state of robotics is almost lost in translation
Conor Gearty enjoys a balanced analysis of the 'War on Terror' from both sides of the fence
This book investigates the life rather than the structures, buildings, policies, systems, human taxonomies and sociologies that normally comprise investigation of the city," writes Adrian Franklin....
In Freedom Flyers, J. Todd Moye recounts one of the greatest tales of the Second World War and of US history - that of the Tuskegee airmen. Aviation, civil rights and Second World War enthusiasts...