PhDs from overseas: the rocky road to success for students and supervisors
Cultural differences can complicate relationships between international doctoral students and supervisors, Jack Grove hears
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Which universities are the most innovative?
Ellie Bothwell introduces our four ‘innovation indicators’ and reveals the strongest performers as we visualise a new ranking based on university-industry collaboration
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Why I should be free to cause offence
Lincoln Allison argues that it is becoming harder for academics to share controversial ideas
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Gemma Bovery, directed by Anne Fontaine
Despite many attempts, Gustave Flaubert’s tale of adultery remains resistant to adaptation, says Philip Kemp
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SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media, by Kaitlynn Mendes
Emma Rees on the social networking origins of a 21st-century political movement
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Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Jerry Kaplan
Robotics will affect our societies and economies more than we expect, discovers John Gilbey
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Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present, by Christian W. McMillen
Helen Bynum on the unending battle to control one of the most infectious diseases in the world
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Jornalero: Being a Day Laborer in the USA, by Juan Thomas Ordóñez
Robert Lee Maril on the lives of migrant Latin American day workers in an atypical Californian city
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Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture, by Lisa Jardine
Forgotten correspondence is vividly brought to life in a study of cultural links, says Henriette Louwerse
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Tragic Modernities, by Miriam Leonard
Barbara Graziosi on an ambitious and well-researched study
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Who is Charlie? Xenophobia and the New Middle Class, by Emmanuel Todd
Sarah Waters on a fascinating yet deeply curious book that has triggered a public outcry in France
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What are you reading? – 20 August 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Laurie Taylor – 20 August 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 20 August 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study