Has Democracy Failed Women?, by Drude Dahlerup
Mary Evans praises an exploration of the ways and means that prevent women from participating in public political spaces
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads, by Tim Wu
Our advertising questions should focus on where and when we are targeted, says Ciaran Driver
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Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded, by Mustafa Dikeç
Lisa Mckenzie on a study about taking one of our strongest emotions to the streets
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Unsettled status is too high a price for Brexit
Home Office threats to deport her may have been an ‘unfortunate error’, but Eva Johanna Holmberg is still wary about the future
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How can scholars tackle the rise of Chinese censorship in the West?
There is growing concern that China is trying to silence its critics in the West, with academic publishers a particular target. Tao Zhang considers the consequences for scholarly freedom – and what...
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Journeys from the Abyss: The Holocaust and forced migration from the 1880s to the present, by Tony Kushner
Book of the week: Anna Boucher commends an analysis of the experiences of different generations of migrants
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What are you reading? – 4 January 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 4 January 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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REF cycles ‘force academics to rush out poorer quality research’
Study finds 35 per cent increase in publications ahead of submission deadline, but 12 per cent decline in citations
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UK universities plan German links to weather Brexit storm
Partnerships should allow access to a wider pool of research grants, institutions hope
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Interview with Patrick Awuah
The Ghanaian university president on medieval poetry, good leadership and Goethe
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An academic’s New Year’s resolutions
Time to cut down on sarcasm, Buzzfeed quizzes, references to neoliberalism and ad hoc usage of Latinate and French phrases, says Emma Rees
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There is no such thing as ‘critical thinking’
Most human beings think well enough, and students are no exception. They just need help to express it within academic conventions, says Stuart Wrigley
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Calestous Juma, 1953-2017
Career of prolific technology and development expert took him from Nairobi to Harvard
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Demand for cuts deals death blow to Australia’s demand-driven system
The uncapped system had many benefits but its cost was ultimately too high for politicians to bear, writes Andrew Norton