Has the Gay Movement Failed?, by Martin Duberman
Sharif Mowlabocus reflects on how politics took a back seat as LGBTQ organisations advanced
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What are you reading? – 2 August 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction, edited by Laura Joyce and Henry Sutton
Book of the week: Dream homes, women on the edge, murder – we’ve been here before, says Sharon Wheeler
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Don’t get comfortable: the rise of the precarious academy
Precarity is a significant feature of the academy worldwide, creating a feeling of ‘academic apartheid’ as it grows. Ellie Bothwell explores its impact
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Does the inspirational teacher still have a place in today’s academy?
Lincoln Allison was inspired to teach by academics who loved what they did and communicated this to students. But has all passion for teaching been eliminated by creeping assessment and...
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Educational Equality and International Students: Justice across Borders?, by Stuart Tannock
Fees and fairness are at stake in UK HE’s global search for students, learns Aniko Horvath
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Books editor’s blog: a riff on physics that shreds boundaries
Philip Moriarty explains quantum mechanics with heavy metal music in
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Denis Mitchison, 1919-2018
Tributes paid to tuberculosis expert who worked on the first randomised controlled clinical trial
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Call to rethink China branch campuses over academic freedom risks
Experts say long-running joint ventures should be seen as a ‘litmus test’
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Bullying ‘endemic’ at Sussex, report warns
Vice-chancellor says university is committed to improving staff well-being
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The week in higher education – 2 August 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Universities extend teaching into evening to cope with expansion
Trend triggers warnings over staff work-life balance and student learning
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Interview with Sir Geoff Palmer
Scotland’s first black professor talks about life as an immigrant, his experiences of racism and why ‘better science makes better’
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Low-tariff institutions must beware of the demographic deficit
Focusing on the mature student market can offer short-term relief from market pressure, but it is not a sustainable approach, says Nora Ann Colton
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Confucius Institutes should not be shut down
Provided universities offer other avenues to debate contentious issues, institutes’ pro-China stance should not be a deal-breaker, says Jeffrey Gil