Interview with Neil Glasser
We talk to the glaciologist about how it feels to have a glacier named after him and the chances of a catastrophic sea-level rise resulting from climate change
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Aung San Suu Kyi inspires University of Oxford to help Myanmar
University academics answer an appeal for help from country's inspirational leader
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Sohar University in Oman is here for long haul, says v-c
Barry Winn, former University of Bradford deputy v-c, criticises short-term ‘colonial’ approach of UK universities to global partnerships
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Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine, by Catherine Besteman
Faith Nibbs on the tensions and accommodations between newcomers and locals in a small town
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Watching Closely: A Guide to Ethnographic Observation, by Christena Nippert-Eng
Novice sociological researchers will find encouragement and help in a programme of exercises whose insights are informed by a group of gorillas, Les Gofton says
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Books interview: Deborah Brautigam
The political economist and author of Will Africa Feed China? on George Orwell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and mountain-climbing, wine-drinking Tang Dynasty poets
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Journal editors’ study claims rivals published ‘marketing trials’
BMJ editor in chief raises alarm over drug trial research funded and often controlled by manufacturers themselves
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What are you reading? – 18 February 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Vince Cable: Lib Dems got policy right, politics wrong on fees
Former business secretary urges universities to plug into global networks and emerging markets as he takes up Nottingham professorship
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Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh
Candida Moss on a work tracing the history of thinkers who saw no place for the deities
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The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick, by Jessica Riskin
Robyn Arianrhod on how Enlightenment android-builders and modern biologists shaped the sciences of life and artificial intelligence
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Do writers care about academic criticism?
Matthew Reisz talks to creative writers and artists about what it is like to be the subject of commentaries and theories
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Rich students ‘five times more likely to study abroad’
Analysis finds men and ethnic minorities under-represented in international cohort
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When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
Book of the week: In an extraordinary voice, a neurosurgeon wrestles with his looming untimely death, says Jennifer Rohn
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Workload survival guide for academics
Advice on how to cope with all the work and when to say no to opportunities