Should you be friends with your PhD students?
Blurring the lines between supervisor and friend can cause difficulties for academics and students alike, says study by Finnish researchers
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Academics and creative firms join together to showcase work
AHRC-funded festival flags up an astonishing variety of collaborative projects
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Einstein’s theory of relativity inspires book of stories
Writers rise to the challenge of creating fiction from black holes, dark matter and warped light
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Risk-based quality assessment ‘cannot work’, study concludes
King’s College London research finds that ability of metrics to predict problems in higher education providers is ‘extremely limited’
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Female academic leaders suffer more from ‘workaholic’ hours culture
Higher levels of stress among senior women revealed by Leadership Foundation report
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Damage controller or perfection seeker? It may all come down to training
Study suggests students taught by academics with teaching qualifications are more likely to pass, but less likely to get first-class scores
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The Dark Side of Management: A Secret History of Management Theory, by Gerard Hanlon
An intellectual tag team helped to steal workers’ time, bodies and then souls, Philip Roscoe learns
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Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship, by Joshua Gamson
Through a series of ‘creation stories’, E. Stina Lyon hears how individuals are breaking ground as they form families
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New and noteworthy – 26 November 2015
From Saudi Arabia’s religious rebels to TTIP's unknown unknowns: new academic books worth adding to your reading list
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Paranoid: Exploring Suspicion from the Dubious to the Delusional, by David J. LaPorte
The rich case study detail is akin to an engrossing chat with a psychiatrist friend, says Amy L. Milton
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Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, by Laura U. Marks
Lindsey Moore on a study of film and video from the Arabic-speaking world
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What are you reading? – 26 November 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, by Shane O’Mara
Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose
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The week in higher education – 26 November 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Lisa Mckenzie on the day she was arrested
Anarchist academic reflects on what her recent brush with the law says about threats to academic freedom