‘Macho’ men skew pain sensitivity studies, research suggests
Hypermasculine men may be more likely to take part in trials, misrepresenting the male population, scientists warn
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THE podcast: 16 - 22 November 2017 issue review
This week's edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team
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How to become a ‘vortex university’
Mark Goodwin looks at what it takes to be a ‘vortex university’, and why Exeter aspires to become one
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PhD students could ‘fall through cracks’ between OfS and UKRI
UKCGE head warns of potential consequences for research students from sector shake-up
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Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling, by David Bordwell
By borrowing and recycling ideas, old Tinseltown pioneered cinematic narrative, says Lucy Bolton
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Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies, by Violaine Roussel
Charles Drazin commends a perceptive although somewhat austere study of Hollywood’s power dynamic
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Pissing Figures, 1280-2014, by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
While many see hilarity in paying the water bill our feelings about it fluctuate, says Peter J. Smith
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The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization, by Leslie Sklair
James Stevens Curl on a study of symptoms of consumer culture and those who built them
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UK research grant success rates rise for first time in five years
Largest amount of cash handed out by research councils overall since 2014-15 brings an end to negative trend
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Oxford tops research grant table for third year
Funding fell for many of the UK’s top institutions despite increase in overall amount of cash granted by research councils
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The week in higher education – 16 November 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Sutton Trust calls for means-tested tuition fees in England
Budget must address ‘scandal’ of debt burden faced by poorest students by linking fees to family income, says education charity
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Mari Lyn Salvador, 1943-2017
Former director of Berkeley anthropology museum remembered
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Unification is the key to diversification
A single, comprehensive policy and funding infrastructure for UK tertiary education would empower learners and encourage innovation, say Paul Woodgates and Mike Boxall