How not to write: 14 tips for aspiring humanities academics
Researchers in the liberal arts seem to have made it their mission to communicate in the most obscure fashion, says Zachary Foster
Researchers in the liberal arts seem to have made it their mission to communicate in the most obscure fashion, says Zachary Foster
Sector experts debate whether continental outposts would help to mitigate any decline in student recruitment
David Mould had to navigate cartoon lemurs and other barriers in order to help local academics study factors hindering development
Academia takes in some truly esoteric topics and tasks, but what are the strangest jobs? Here, five individuals with surprising roles describe their work
The discipline has promised big advances in many areas, but is it failing to live up to the hype? Three neuroscientists consider the state of their field
Construction on £25 million biomass boiler in nearby village aims to cut energy costs for ancient university
A new digital tool reveals exactly who was close to whom in the age of the Tudors and Stuarts
Nicholas Morton is road-testing some unusual ways to get, and keep, students’ attention
A work of distinction offers fresh insights into the hedonism and hangovers, says Richard J. Williams
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Kevin Spacey to play a key cameo in new home for fashion, fine art, film and theatre students
An engaging account of an unruly city, but why so little on Empire, wonders Danny Dorling
A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre
John Gilbey is fascinated by the unseen fibre-optic communications cables that gird the globe
Call it a ‘hypercane’ or a ‘weather bomb’, we’re as much at its mercy as ever, writes Philip Hoare