Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, by Matthew D. Lieberman
Tristan Bekinschtein welcomes a work showing that research into who we are can be based on science
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Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens, by James Robson
Barbara Graziosi discovers what went on in the bedroom in ancient Greece
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Mixed Emotions: Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict, by Andrew A. G. Ross
Gregory Kent explores the affective consequences of war
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The Children’s War: Britain, 1914-1918, by Rosie Kennedy
A. W. Purdue on how children shared in the nation’s experience of the First World War
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Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and J. M. W. Turner
Turner Contemporary in Margate allows visually convincing comparisons in the work of two major artists, finds Alexander Massouras
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Individual rewards for collective success
Justifying the 39 per cent increase in the total pay package of Sir Keith Burnett, the University of Sheffield’s vice-chancellor, pro chancellor Tony Pedder informs us that “under Sir Keith’s...
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Ashes to ashes, universities to dust
Universities are now like Jeremy Bentham, hollow husks of their former selves, laments Christopher Bigsby
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UCU looks set for court battle for striking members’ pay
But law might not be on its side in its effort to prevent docking of full day’s pay, solicitor says
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Unexpected surplus for London Met but pain lingers
University warns more savings are needed as it admits international recruitment will not recover for years
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Uncapped numbers: it’s a different story Down Under
The experience of uncapping numbers in the UK will be different from that in Australia, says Libby Hackett
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Competition body expected to run market study of sector
Fees would be a focus in Competition and Markets Authority investigation, sources believe
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Stephen Hawking professorship in cosmology a ‘threat to meritocracy’
Cambridge to put plan to set up new chair to vote after $6 million donation from Avery-Tsui Foundation
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York sticks by ‘no women’ promise to male student
Human rights invoked in guaranteeing female-free seminars
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AHRC grants help scholars and firms to serve up archives
Food, feminism and assumptions about asylum seekers among areas explored in eight AHRC-backed projects
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Europe’s early career researchers gloomy over prospects
Long hours, job insecurity and need for mentoring noted in global survey of young scientists