Seven academic leaders share their experiences at the departmental helm along with their tips on how to squeeze the best out of sceptical staff and meagre budgets – and still find time for research
Steven Vaughan admires a powerful, rich and moving legal history of same-sex union
Laura Bowater appreciates a layperson’s guide to identifying scientific fact from fiction
What use is the Bard? In politics or life, what you do with his plays is up to you, finds Peter J. Smith
Vicky Duckworth on the injustice and discrimination that means many working women do not fulfil their potential
Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane
Medieval employment practice used by University of Amsterdam may help to preserve under-threat humanities disciplines, experts say
Analysis of scholarly publishing’s ‘Napster’ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research
‘Peculiar’ experiment fails to find link between physical appearance and grades
British universities would be ‘most affected’ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns
As universities rely on multiple income streams to stay afloat, private money comes with caveats and portfolios must balance profit and principle
In the feature “Leading lights” (4 May), Agnes Bäker and Amanda Goodall make an excellent and spot-on argument that the best academics make the best heads of department, which applies even higher up...
Planetary scientist whose sculptures can be found across the University of Leicester’s campus is remembered