Call for tailored mental health support for postgraduate researchers
One in four female and one in five male postgraduate researchers found to be seeking counselling during their studies, according to new report from Research England
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Withdrawal of ‘flawed’ international student survey welcomed
Academics raised concerns about ‘loaded’ questions asked by Migration Advisory Committee
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THE podcast: Forever young? Universities under 50
How are younger institutions building prestige and attracting global talent?
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Athena SWAN review to target administrative burden
Brunel University London vice-chancellor to examine flagship equality scheme used in UK, Ireland and Australia
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Springer Nature is committed to being a part of the open-access movement
Institutions, research funding bodies and publishers must all work together to change the system in the interest of advancing research, says Steven Inchcoombe
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Athena SWAN is imperfect but valuable
I have a lot of sympathy for the issues Rebecca Harrison raised in her opinion article “False goddess” (3 May), in which she argues that Athena SWAN and similar schemes are failing. I too am involved...
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Sexual misconduct in academia: reassessing the past
The #MeToo movement has cast historical behaviour and curricula in a new, shadowy light. Four writers give us their perspectives
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Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All, by Scott Samuelson
Book of the week: life is full of inescapable sorrows; dealing with them takes grace and grit, K. E. Gover learns
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The academic who hopped a freight train to live and learn with drifters
For insight into the ‘pervasive dislocation’ of people’s lives today, the sociologist Jeff Ferrell rode the rails across the US. He tells Matthew Reisz about life on the road and the limits of...
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Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations, by Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Depictions of sick human bodies were valuable in advancing medical knowledge, says Helen Bynum
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Science not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement, edited by Stephanie Fine Sasse and Lucky Tran
Richard Joyner on a heartening collection of accounts by more than 40 people who participated in worldwide demonstrations for science
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What are you reading? – 17 May 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism, by Tim Rogan
A trio of dissenting voices echo through history in this timely, vivid book, writes Fred Inglis
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Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the end of the Establishment, by Aeron Davis
A transparent account of elites’ views makes compelling – and depressing – reading, finds Heather Savigny
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New and noteworthy – 17 May 2018
A critique of the political class; overcoming groupthink; the father of fractal geometry; the golden age of American teen car culture and a theory of cultural evolutionary psychology