How to navigate choppy, elitist waters as a working-class academic
It will do no harm to find colleagues who understand the role of social, economic and cultural backgrounds in academia, says Carole Binns
It will do no harm to find colleagues who understand the role of social, economic and cultural backgrounds in academia, says Carole Binns
From neuroscience to philosophy and economics, seven scholars relate what work in their disciplines reveals about the search for #HEhappiness
With the holiday season upon us, five academics suggest some unique destinations you may want to consider – or perhaps not
The toxic dispute over the rights of transgender people and how freely these matters should be discussed remains academia’s most divisive issue. Laura Favaro explains what she learned from speaking...
UK scholars are slowly but surely heading into the blogosphere. Zoe Corbyn reports
Spiking inflation and an accommodation squeeze are eroding students’ already meagre means. As a major review of higher education begins, John Ross examines reforms that would allow students to keep...
With about one-third of Earth’s 7 billion inhabitants on a social network, it is an inevitable part of scholars’ lives. While many academics find Twitter and Facebook useful means of disseminating...
Determination to make your own way is key to success in academia, but scholars’ research, teaching and even their lives can be transformed by a chance encounter or event
Does solidarity among female scholars exist only in the (male) mind? Are women really supportive of one another? And if so, how far does it go to redressing male advantage?
Academic work is typically all-consuming, but some scholars still manage to combine some eye-catching sidelines with their day jobs. Here, five tell their stories
Readers show a taste for the UK’s REF as normality returns after pandemic
From giving up Bremoaning and plastic cutlery, to publishing 10 papers in one year and sketchnoting, scholars share their goals for 2017
Are research careers meritocratic? Do universities do enough to support researchers? Is impact more important than publications? Is interdisciplinarity the key to new discoveries? Can...
Backed by state government, an ambitious university-led initiative is aiming to restore the Ruhr Valley’s former industrial glory. John Morgan meets academics behind the experiment in driving...
In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark