The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking In many ways, the research assessment exercise is a brilliant...
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking Walk into any academic department in the UK, ask what the...
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking It is 15 years since the first research assessment exercise,...
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking My first suggestion for improvement of the research...
Randolph Nesse is on a mission. Normally a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, he is spending a year at University College London, and one of his targets while in town is the "...
Belinda Chang and her colleagues have used molecular biology to recreate history in their laboratory How do you research the vision of a creature that's been extinct for more than 200 million years?...
Can we use evolution to our advantage in the fight against disease? Martin Ince speaks to Sir David Weatherall (pictured) about the potential of molecular medicine Evolution by natural selection is...
Can religious fervour be inspired by low-frequency sounds from organ, or even drainage, pipes? Christopher Wood takes a spine-tingling look at infrasound Some of the world's great thinkers have...
Top-up fees, debt and moves to reform governance make for turbulent times at Cambridge, so how will Alison Richard, its first female vice-chancellor, weather the storm? Walter Ellis expects heads to...
Real and imagined terrorist threats are driving governments to scrap basic freedoms in a fight against a virtual enemy, say Conor Gearty and Gerd Oberleitner How fragile is our commitment to what we...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a new translation of the world's earliest novel: "I came to Warley on a wet September morning with the...
Consciousness and the novel
Ethiopia, the Unknown Land
Kleines aus dem Großen Krieg
Exotic No More