Violence of the lambs
Polyglot polymath and scholar Barbara Oakley takes a incisive look at the cult of the victim. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LondonIndonesian Eye: Fantasies and RealitiesThe Saatchi Gallery is hosting what is said to be the first-ever European exhibition of contemporary Indonesian art (running until 9 October). It was put...
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The Pick - Memory Remains
Memory RemainsImperial War Museum, LondonOn 11 September 2001, photographer Francesc Torres was living two blocks from the Twin Towers and witnessed the second impact while talking to his mother on a...
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Delusions of languor
As we go to press, we learn with deep regret of the institutional confinement of Professor F.R. Beavis, Head of our Department of English and Related Studies.It appears that this most unfortunate...
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TV review: The Field of Blood
Gary Day sees good versus evil in a hard-headed tale of murder set in a Glasgow newsroom
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Film review: The Hedgehog
An intelligent adaptation skilfully if smugly paints Japan as antidote to French bourgeois life, says Philip Dodd
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THE Awards 2011: shortlist announced
The unflagging quality and innovation evident in universities across the UK shows the sector's resolute commitment to excellence in the face of a difficult and unpredictable climate. Our shortlist...
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John Turner, 1947-2011
John Turner is remembered as a scholar who focused on the big questions and the things that mattered and who always completed tasks to the best of his ability.Born in London in 1947, Professor Turner...
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Appointments
Kingston UniversityYannis GeorgellisAn economist who specialises in the pursuit of happiness has been appointed director of the Centre for Research in Employment, Skills and Society at Kingston...
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Odds and quads
These hair samples may look as if they come from the collection of a serial killer, but they were prepared by one of the major figures in the development of the University of Dundee's renowned...
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Leader: Remember this - but not that
We need a way to archive the web for the future while ensuring that people are not lost in 'data shadows' or digital doppelgängers
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From where I sit - Gems in the research scrapheap
An English-language journal has recently been launched in Germany that focuses on "failed" research. That is, it publishes material rejected by mainstream journals because it did not yield the...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of OxfordFossil-fuelled discoveryResearchers working in Australia have found the oldest-known fossils on Earth. A team of researchers from the University of Western Australia and the...
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The week in higher education
• The opportunity for a headline about students living the Hi-de-Hi! life was too much to resist when it emerged that Edge Hill University was scoping out a Pontins holiday camp in search of...