Girls on film
The Cinema of Childhood, a touring festival, spurs Davina Quinlivan to reflect on screen representations of bodies in flux
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Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues, by Martin Blaser
Overuse of antibiotics is upsetting the balance of our internal ecosystems, finds Jon Turney
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Another Darkness, Another Dawn: A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers, by Becky Taylor
Annabel Tremlett lauds an exploration of the experiences of Travellers in Europe and their cultural contributions
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Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film, by Robert Sitton
A pioneer in an emerging artistic field deserves a prominent place in the annals of film, finds Philip Kemp
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Think Like a Freak: How To Think Smarter About Almost Everything, by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
Philip Roscoe savours the latest entertaining and enlightening serving of maverick thinking
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Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality, by Sarah Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman
Rachel Condry extols an analysis that draws upon survey data and interviews to ask vital questions about the hidden victims of parental incarceration
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Bologna and the states of limbo
What might be done to support higher education systems in regions that are not recognised as states? asks Anne Corbett
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Lost in translation: confusion caused by differences between US and UK English in interpreting feedback
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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3 July 2014
Life after life - When scholars pass the baton of their papers and unfinished works
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Check your privilege, academics told
Warwick sociologist urges scholars to let go of their ‘sense of injury’ if they want to resist marketisation
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Visa fraudsters ‘preying on’ London branch campuses
UK parent institutions face questions over their procedures and monitoring of capital operations
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Life after life: academic legacies
What happens to scholars’ papers and unfinished works when they die? Matthew Reisz on the guardian’s dilemma
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Spike in NSS ‘yea-sayers’ could weaken survey data
Hefce-commissioned report recommends adjusting questions to counter fears that survey is being filled in ‘without sufficient thought’
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Four priorities for slimmer HEA as workforce is halved
New workstreams, fewer events and push to attract subscribers could help organisation to achieve self-sufficiency, chief says
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Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension Between Rivalry and Restraint, by Bruce Jones
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on a shrewd analysis of the global order