3 March: After talking to my partner, old friends and the union, I decide to send an email to Helen Murr outlining my concerns about Marcus and suggesting a temporary change of line manager. This is...
Disappointing RAE results could lead to cuts, leaked documents show. Melanie Newman reports
Research elite ‘surprised’ by ‘real decline’ in budgets, reports Zoë Corbyn
Musing on the often acrimonious debate between atheists and believers, Simon Blackburn takes as his inspiration David Hume, who approached the issue not with hatred but with humour
Overworked, underpaid and insecure: adjunct and part-time US faculty are fighting to convince their institutions - and tenured colleagues - that they deserve better. Jon Marcus reports
Successive RAEs have concentrated research cash in the hands of the elite. This time around, the pie has been shared more widely. Zoë Corbyn reports
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493/94-1541), who began using the pen name Paracelsus in an astrological tract published in 1529, has long been appreciated for his revolutionary ideas in medicine and...
Fred Inglis admires an examination of the place of those who speak truth to power in society today
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Cambridge Companion to DarwinEdited by Jonathan Hodge, senior lecturer in the history and philosophy of science, and Gregory Radick, senior lecturer in...
A survey of citizenship criteria makes a valuable contribution to a hot issue, says Sian Reynolds
War-ravaged nations have been a prominent feature of the post-Cold War era. Although many of the conflicts have dissipated into some form of peace, few of these places can be said to have established...
1 Macroeconomics: Fifth International Edition by Olivier Blanchard Pearson Education, £49.99 ISBN 97801320796312. Violence by Slavojiek Profile Books, £8.99 ISBN 97818466801753. Dante's Inferno -...
Gail Kinman welcomes an exhaustive overview of lengthy labours and their impacts on health
Saladin, the Kurdish leader who crowned the political achievements of his mentor Nur al-Din by uniting the late 12th-century Muslim Middle East under his rule and recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy...
Fragmenting Fatherhood explores how fatherhood has been understood and regulated at different moments across diverse areas of English law and social policy. Both Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon are...