Paul Gilroy: is the academy taking race seriously at last?
The winner of this year’s Holberg Prize, worth over £500,000, on career setbacks, changing attitudes and decolonising the curriculum
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Plan S may ‘consolidate power of big publishers’, academy warns
London Book Fair hears claims European open access push may aid big publishers rather than reduce their power
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KAIST passes on founding favour by establishing Kenyan university
University that was founded with US support partners with Korean government to set up African institution
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London’s high earners are poorer than graduate professionals in regions
Higher salaries enjoyed by many graduates are offset by sky-high living costs in many cities, but this quality of life metric is entirely absent from policy debate, says Charlie Ball
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P-p-pick up a penguin: Life as an active field biologist
Understanding animal behaviour presents many challenges in the field. Matthew Reisz meets Rory Wilson, a biologist who has won awards for his innovative methods of tracking everything from...
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Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster, by Guy Beiner
Georgina Laragy on how common cause came to be consigned to the corner of people’s minds
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Unfinished Business: The Politics of ‘Dissident’ Irish Republicanism, by Marisa McGlinchey
Charles Townshend on a timely survey of those who never accepted the ‘peace process’ in Ireland and see the border as a provocation
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Books interview: Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal, the biologist and primatologist and author most recently of , on the lure of , getting inside animal’s minds and in-group/out-group behaviour in
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines, by Kara Dixon Vuic
Wholesome female entertainers for male soldiers reinforced rigid gender roles, finds David Ulbrich
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Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America, by Erika Lorraine Milam
The ‘killer ape’ theory of violent behaviour managed to grip the public imagination for many years, learns Marcia Holmes
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What are you reading? – 14 March 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic freedom: why do protections not apply to university leaders?
As universities become ever more wary of negative publicity, leaders who speak out on contentious issues are increasingly finding themselves in hot water. Ellie Bothwell reports
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The Story of Myth, by Sarah Iles Johnston
Book of the week: Robert Segal on a work that strives to restore the centrality of narrative to tales as old as time
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Lessons from penguin island
Matthew Reisz meets an expert on tracking the movements of animals which are sometimes fierce and virtually impossible to catch