International student recruitment comes under scrutiny for raising immigration figures, but it is also valued for fostering allies among future global leaders. Yet if it really does so, why are the...
Built in a former telephone exchange, Atrium - which, like Tate Modern, has dropped the definite article - houses the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries and gives the University of...
From satirical novels to US sitcoms and cop shows, academics have proved to be rich source material across many genres. Four writers argue the case for who can claim to be fiction’s greatest scholar
With academics feeling the strain from higher workloads, the days when scholars had time to write novels or run businesses seem increasingly distant. Lincoln Allison suggests that universities have...
Nathan Abrams considers the many ways Nazi atrocities continue to echo through popular culture on screen
Tiya Thomas-Alexander explores why some Asian territories are growing more global while others are not
As his new book on pandemics is published, the UK’s best-known historian tells Matthew Reisz that identity politics is inhibiting history, nationalism only intensifies during global crises, and a...
Sci-fi's visions of what is to come tell us much about present preoccupations, writes John Gilbey
Universities should do all they can to expand students’ horizons by exposing them to the transcendentally vast, says Andy Tix
Those focused on dissecting pop culture face hostility from politicians, the media and fellow academics, but their work remains vital, ‘Kylie scholar’ Liz Giuffre tells Rosa Ellis
Stella Hughes speaks to graduates of an innovative multimedia course at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. A dozen fledgling multimedia authors and editors, the first graduates of the advanced...
When her broadcasting career took off in her mid-fifties, Mary Beard became one of Britain’s best-known and most-discussed academics. Jack Grove speaks to the retiring Cambridge classicist about her...
Elon Musk’s ‘de facto town square’ is a place where misinformation abounds and where academia is often attacked by culture warriors. But is fighting back effective? Or can it make things worse if...
From scrolls to iPads, literature may change its form but its importance endures, says Tara Brabazon