Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
For readers familiar with Japanese fashion, the eye-catching cover of Yuniya Kawamura's book may signal a link between this work and photographer Shoichi Aoki's long-running FRUiTS project. FRUiTS'...
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The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome
Lucy Wooding admires the balance of a tome that puts pre-Reformation England's religion on trial
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Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman
In the study of popular culture, academicians have recently been bringing material from abstract disciplines, such as philosophy, to bear on it. What should we make of this seemingly odd pairing? A...
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The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq
In the years after the Second World War, academic centres focused specifically on the study of conflict began to lead the scholarly agenda in that field. King's College London's Department of War...
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News in brief
United StatesCalifornian wrangling endsThe staff of a US university system have approved a new four-year labour contract, ending two years of contentious bargaining with administrative officials....
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German palates slow to adapt to Bologna's quick-cook recipe
Ten years on, EU-wide menu of reforms continues to stir debate. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RSProject grants• Award winner: Jan-Ulrich Kreft• Institution: University of Birmingham• Value: £266,197eGUT...
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Working on borrowed time?
Librarians fear redundancy as open access alters role of academic collections. Matthew Reisz writes
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News in brief
Digital humanitiesNo-holds BardA large-scale digital resource whose first tranche covers the writings of "Shakespeare and his immediate contemporaries, antecedents and successors" has been launched...
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Publishers tap education to combat drop in print sales
David Matthews investigates attempts to entice students as next-generation subscribers
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Decent exposure
Research data published online must be accessible to allow scrutiny by other academics if we are to prevent fraud, says Geoffrey Boulton
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Peer pressure
The journal review system's lack of transparency worries Stephen Mumford
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Elite feel pinch of AAB shortfall
Institutions lose students and funds as admissions policy backfires. John Morgan and Jack Grove write
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Stealth fighters rail against concentration on the quiet
Brickbats for additional £10 million in open-access cash aimed at big boys. Paul Jump writes
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Faith and hope in £2 billion of charity by 2022
Charitable donations to universities could treble to £2 billion a year within a decade if institutions continue to invest in fundraising, a report has claimed.The Review of Philanthropy in Higher...