Interview with Christina Murray
We talk about helping shape a country’s direction and the rise of managerialism in HE with the Bingham Centre’s new director
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Birmingham-Nottingham link creates £10m research centre
Five years from launch, partnership proves benefits of bigger scale, according to two v-cs
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Eurovision block voting: does anything similar occur in research?
Data on international collaborations hint at importance of place, politics and history
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New tool aims to boost universities' flagging green efforts
Scorecard could help institutions improve green credentials after damning report warned universities had fallen behind on carbon reduction targets
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White Paper: will TEF link to multiple fee caps be dropped?
Plans for 'failure regime' also on the agenda for higher education bill after Queen's Speech
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Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities, edited by Elvi Whittaker
Gendered dichotomies distort our perceptions of aloneness in the academy, writes Aniko Horvath
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Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement, by Rosemary Wakeman
A continent-hopping survey of garden cities mulls dreams, war and exclusion, says Richard J. Williams
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The Habsburg Empire: A New History, by Pieter M. Judson
A. W. Purdue on a bold and refreshing revisionist study
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Books interview: Frank Dikötter
The author of The Cultural Revolution: A People's History 1962-1976 on dictators and survivors, Dostoevsky and Pushkin, and narrative, truth and fiction
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What are you reading? – 12 May 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 12 May 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life, edited by Dwight Neuenschwander
Valuable nuggets await in a master-apprentice Q&A but be ready to dig, says Andrew Robinson
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Universities ‘should set targets’ on recruiting male students
Hepi calls for action on sector’s gender gap to tackle male ‘underachievement’
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Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District, by Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Rachel Dickinson on a study that asks if 19th-century lifestyle choices can help us solve 21st-century problems
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Elite universities least likely to hit access goals
Institutional performance on widening participation released by Offa for first time