Summer reading 2019
Scholars and sector figures offer recommendations for reading over the summer break
Scholars and sector figures offer recommendations for reading over the summer break
BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections
Philip Moriarty shares his Christmas wish list after taking on recommendations from the elf review panel
The relationship between PhD students and their supervisors is often said to be the most intense in the academy, with huge implications for student success. Yet most supervisors receive little if any...
Scholars give their recommendations for their best book of 2018 and the book they are most looking forward to reading in 2019
In their enthusiasm for faculty to engage on social networks and have online brands, universities need to prepare academics for the toxicity that can come with it, argues Philip Moriarty
Peer review is lauded in principle as the guarantor of quality in academic publishing and grant distribution. But its practice is often loathed by those on the receiving end. Here, seven academics...
Copyright policy would bar staff at University of Nottingham from objecting to edited versions of their own lectures, which could be used during a strike
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
Critics call proposal for world-first professional recognition system ‘demented’
As an academic and a potential “have-a-go marketer”, I was intrigued and challenged by the article “Have-a-go marketers need to show respect for professional staff” (Opinion, 29 June) about the need...
In common with all of Microsoft Office, PowerPoint suffers from “familiarity breeding contempt” (“In praise of PowerPoint”, Opinion, 16 July). Yet I am always amazed by the functionality of such...
It was brave for Philip Moriarty to argue that university marketing approaches need to stop insulting the intelligence of students (“Words fail us: marketing-speak damages the brand”, Opinion, 24...
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal the books they’ll be reading over the summer break – for work or pleasure or both – in part two of our annual round-up of holiday reads