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University of MelbourneKaren Day“All Australians abroad speak of ‘going home’: this is how it feels to me,” said Karen Day, who has been appointed dean of science at the University of Melbourne, her...
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Obituary - David Solomon
“A legendary figure at UCLA” who proved a pioneer in geriatric medicine has died.David Solomon was born on 7 March 1923 and brought up in Brookline, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brown...
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Robert Zaretsky calls for quiet time and pauses for reflection in lectures and seminars
Robert Zaretsky discusses whether sustained and sustaining pauses for thought give space for reflection amid the ellipses
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Sian Lawson discusses how scholars and students can make Twitter and Facebook truly social media
Sian Lawson offers academics advice on how to align student-scholar expectations in the social media age
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Joanna Williams loves her job: spending less time doing it won’t improve her well-being
If work is your passion, argues Joanna Williams, greater well-being doesn’t necessarily stem from spending more time at home
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Christopher Bigsby - Hard yardage
Why do US universities take sport so seriously?, asks Christopher Bigsby
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Letters
Guiding the clever to wisdom’s shoresI was fascinated by the quote from Tony Blair in 1999 promoting 50 per cent entry in UK higher education: “In today’s world there is no such thing as too clever....
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Liberation theology
Sarah Coakley is outspoken about theology’s relevance and determined not to allow it to wither in a dusty campus corner. She tells Matthew Reisz how it can illuminate contemporary issues such as...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Consumers left hungry for meaning
Consumerisation’s spread to all aspects of life and work leaves a hollow feeling, finds Cary Cooper
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Pragmatic encounters: seldom brief
Hilary Hinds praises an account of social shifts gleaned from small ads, smooching and soulmates
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Apocalypse cowed
Joanna Depledge is disturbed by advice to be passive in the face of human-induced apocalypse
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London Underground: A Cultural Geography, by David Ashford
A. W. Purdue on the evolution of the Tube system
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France and the Age of Revolution: Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte, by William Doyle
Robert Zaretsky on a study that shows how history defeats not just prediction, but also our predilection for theory