THE podcast: 7-13 April 2016 issue review
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by our editorial team

The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by our editorial team

We talk to the digital games professor about the perception of games in the academy

Battersea campus will tackle global challenges via linkage of science, technology, design and creative arts

A skilful and charismatic ‘drug hunter’ has died

How should universities handle breakdowns in PhD student-supervisor relationships?

Academic casts doubt on universities’ spin-off success and impact on SMEs

Offspring of lone parents are an overlooked group in widening participation, study suggests

Before our obsession with sustainability, we liked our buildings disposable, says Annmarie Adams

Lara Douds-Cook welcomes a colourful compendium of overlapping conflicts in a disintegrating and reconfiguring empire

Russell Group and University Alliance at loggerheads over whether next research excellence framework should assess more at university level

Dutch goddesses, the tragedy of the commons, Justin Trudeau’s dad and putting what’s left of the UK’s family silver to good use: must-read academic titles

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

A. W. Purdue on a perceptive look at those who shaped, and were shaped by, their times

Who wears the trousers? Women often played men in early Hollywood, and few were anything like the ‘monstrous butch’ archetype, Leanne Dawson finds

Book of the week: The Sun’s magnetic fields make it much more than a dull ball of hot gas, says Marcus Chown