Border studies: relevant for international relations and ‘border guard’ university staff
From Isis and the Middle East to Europe’s response to refugees, borders are at the heart of many crises around the world
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Interview with Sir Peter Sutherland
The former director general of the World Trade Organization talks immigration and inter-university rugby rivalries
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Engineering as ‘aspirational’ career path: vision of University of Sheffield leadership academy
Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy aims to equip graduates with the ‘soft skills’ required for industry or academia
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Can philosophy survive in an academy driven by impact and employability?
Simon Blackburn, Mariana Alessandri and John Kaag on why reports of Socrates’ impending demise are greatly exaggerated
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Should post-publication peer review be anonymous?
The PubPeer organisers and two other scholars debate the merits and pitfalls of anonymity in peer review
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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, by Judith Butler
Book of the week: A shared sense of precarity is at the heart of recent disparate mass protests, says Mary Evans
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What are you reading? – 10 December 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity and Contemporary Media Culture, by Raka Shome
Was it beauty, race or rebelliousness that created a global icon? Joanna Lewis surveys the evidence
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The First Book of Fashion: The Books of Clothes of Matthäus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg, edited by Ulinka Rublack and Maria Hayward
David Rosenthal on a Renaissance man who recorded in detail his obsession with the functional aesthetics his clothing and dress
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Hope without Optimism, by Terry Eagleton
Priyamvada Gopal ponders the emancipatory potential of the ‘poor relation’ of faith and charity
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Microbes and the Fetlar Man: The Life of Sir William Watson Cheyne, by Jane Coutts
The work of a medical pioneer is painted on a canvas rich in domestic detail, says Helen Bynum
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New and noteworthy – 10 December 2015
From Lehman Brothers to La Leche League via disaster capitalism and 'the new retirement': new academic books worth adding to your reading list
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World-class universities ‘may not be best approach’ for emerging economies
BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit hears that countries such as India should stop trying to play the West's game
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India will have the largest student population by 2025, study predicts
British Council research forecasts that China will remain the top provider of international students
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Higher education ‘part of problem of social inequality, not solution to it’
SRHE conference told that universities are at centre of ‘a race between competing social groups with unequal resources’