Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out
Juggling family life and a career in science is a struggle for women, Elizabeth Whitelegg observes
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Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the US Welfare State
When Bronson Alcott took his children off to a commune with instructions not to eat meat or wear animal products, the little Alcotts, freezing on a diet of apples while wearing politically correct...
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Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism
Written by an American scholar of religious studies at North Carolina State University, this book argues that conservative evangelical Christians are driven by the fear that America is being taken...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES?Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of WarBy Jeffrey A. Lockwood, professor of natural sciences and humanities, University of Wyoming. Oxford...
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From where I sit - Bumpy landings for parachutes
A flurry of movement at the top ranks of universities in mainland China caught the public's attention towards the end of last year.Among those to move were Zhou Qifeng, former president of Jilin...
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Staff drug shock probe
A significant proportion of academic staff at this university may be using drugs to enhance their performance.This was the shock implication of remarks made last week by Doctor Fritz Itzig of our...
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With no due respect, LOL
Insults toasting on an open flame test Kevin Fong's post-Christmas spirit
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Research intelligence - Seeking savvy lab partners
A BBSRC scheme aims to find business experts who can help scientists commercialise research. Elinor Zuke reports
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Guest leader: Don't duck awkward truths
Post-RAE, Bahram Bekhradnia calls for a renewed commitment to base public policy on evidence, not administrative convenience
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Hugh Laddie, 1946-2008
Hugh Laddie, an iconoclastic High Court judge who became a professor of intellectual property law, has died.He was born on 15 April 1946 and educated at Aldenham school in Hertfordshire before...
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University of Oxford - Aboriginal remains repatriated
Human remains are to be returned to Australia by the University of Oxford, after a request by the Australian Government and the Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee. The three different sets of remains...
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Similar game with different goals?
Jon F. Baldwin offers a wonderful polemic repelling those who strive for a critical pedagogy ("A culture of excellence", Opinion, 1 January). Rather than focus on the banal, trite regurgitation of...
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Degrees of difference
Jan Smit has it almost right and the university registrar he met completely wrong - an indication of some administrators' detachment from academe? (Letters, 1 January).The earliest doctorates were...
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A number of errors
I read with interest and some concern your article "Elite v-cs fear 'end of road' for concentration of research" (1 January). Unless I am very stupid, the numbers are totally incorrect.If we take...
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Ringing response
Academics can often reveal so much when they believe they have to respond to a review of their book. Having been a book reviews editor for two academic journals, I have witnessed the insecurities of...