How to win a research grant
Even in disciplines in which research is inherently inexpensive, ‘grant capture’ is increasingly being adopted as a metric to judge academics and universities. But with success rates typically little...
Even in disciplines in which research is inherently inexpensive, ‘grant capture’ is increasingly being adopted as a metric to judge academics and universities. But with success rates typically little...
Fragmentary, first-person accounts are challenging the staid traditions of the monograph, event hears
The winner of this year’s Holberg Prize, worth over £500,000, on career setbacks, changing attitudes and decolonising the curriculum
Liz Gloyn enjoys a bold attempt to tell the story of a fascinating but largely forgotten woman
English studies is a traditional big beast in the academy, but there are concerns that changes in student behaviour could put it on the endangered list. Seven academics give their views on whether...
Journals’ digital life assured as print phased out Journals’ digital life assured as print phased out PNAS is to be congratulated for its recent decision to cease printing its journal (“Out of paper...
The Oxford professor and Costa Book of the Year award-winner on bringing a Holocaust survivor’s story into the present through ‘documentary novelisation’
Claims that academics are indoctrinating their students with liberal propaganda are increasingly common in the right-wing media. John Morgan examines why such a conviction has arisen and whether...
Chester’s Tim Grady, recently shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, is proof that smaller universities can produce researchers who compete with the elite. John Morgan writes
Circus expert Vanessa Toulmin explains how growing up on a fairground has shaped her academic career, teaching style and approach to life
Book of the week: Emily Michelson learns that the home and the items in it were the heart of Renaissance religion
We are digitising the remnants of a (successful) 1897 protest against women entering the University of Cambridge to ensure the stories of pioneering women in higher education aren’t forgotten, says...
The Hungarian medievalist discusses being in Paris in 1968, learning from Jacques Le Goff, and the Orbán regime
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...