What are you reading? – 5 March 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Now is the time to build a research infrastructure that harnesses and nurtures the energy, creativity and enterprise of the third sector, says letter
Publishers’ terror of libel law and focus on their profit margins have made them excessively risk-averse, says Stuart Macdonald
Business and management schools are highly successful in financial terms, and provide valuable income to their wider universities. But opinion remains sharply divided on how successful they have been...
Only a completely new institutional structure will see teaching and research on organisations become a proper, socially responsible subject, and not merely a cash cow, says Martin Parker
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
Jeffrey Beall’s blacklist of predatory publishers has disappeared, and so too should ideas about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ journals, argues Martin Parker
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (“University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs”, News...
Mark Gatenby considers what it means for business schools – and universities more generally – to embrace Utopian ways of thinking
A work that straddles subject boundaries is an unattractive prospect for publishers, finds Martin Parker
Given the absence of any explanation from the University of Warwick for Thomas Docherty’s suspension (“Employer gags critic of ‘authoritarian’ sector”, News, 19 June), the suspicion must be that he...
It was with interest we read Jack Grove's article reflecting on Linda Evans' research on professorial leadership ("'Prima donna' professors lambasted for failure to mentor", 17 November). The results...
Working with Adults at Risk from HarmEditors: Margaret Greenfields, Roger Dalrymple and Agnes FanningEdition: FirstPublisher: Open University Press/McGraw-HillPages: 296Price: £65.00, £22.99 and £....
We are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government’s austerity programme and are increasingly determined to campaign against it.The coalition has...