Academics’ new year resolutions for 2020
From tackling racism to giving up chicken, academics are not short of ideas about how to improve their professional and personal lives at the dawn of the new decade
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Hillary Clinton appointed Queen’s University Belfast chancellor
Former US secretary of state hails ‘strong relationship’ with Northern Ireland institution
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Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White
Book of the week: Andrew Palmer is impressed by a bold survey of literature on both sides of the Iron Curtain
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Interview with Caspar Melville
The former music journalist turned SOAS academic talks about why London’s black music cultures deserve more study
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Marilyn Yalom, 1932-2019
Tributes paid to a pioneering feminist scholar who ‘made conversation glitter’
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Bias fears over Uber academic research programme
Critics claim that only ‘congenial’ researchers get access to ride-hailing company’s data, while academic co-authors have potential conflicts of interest
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V-c fears hopes of UK joining Horizon Europe ‘drifting away’
Others suggest government position on joining research programme is unchanged, while Cummings’ view may balance criticism of EU on research with openness to association
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‘TripAdvisor for peer review’ targets publishing bias
Text scans by artificial intelligence will flag inconsistent or unusual patterns in reviewer behaviour, says Wolverhampton professor
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The week in higher education – 2 January 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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2 January 2020 digital edition
Welcome changes: Scholars share their New Year’s resolutions
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New world disorder: the academy’s role in upholding internationalism
Rachel Kyte’s previous roles in supra-national bodies make the new dean of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of international relations determined to see the academy play its part in rescuing...
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Teaching intelligence: building a global community for pedagogy
Three academics in the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows discuss learning from colleagues around the world about how to improve teaching
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Australia must not pull up the ladder for poorer students
Student income support is increasingly insufficient and in urgent need of reform, says Dawn Freshwater
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Harvard teaching assistants end strike without deal
Union cites aspirational university statement as grounds to halt walkout
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Working after hours? It’s academic
Did they know it was Christmas? Research probes academic propensity for submitting work out of hours