Academics prefer to publish their research under the most restrictive forms of copyright, a survey has suggested.More than half of 13,000 authors who have recently published in Taylor &...
The Oracle by Reg Butler is one of five original works in the University of Hertfordshire’s art collection.
Wearing wellResearch by a university’s neuroscientists has inspired catwalk fashion for a unique scheme. The Changing Minds project - involving neuroscientists at the University of Southampton and...
Ervand Abrahamian considers how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia
The architects of the Iraq misadventure should be made to read this book, avers James T. Crouse
This is a generous, well-crafted review of the life of Bradford-born public sector architect Mary Medd (née Crowley, 1907-2005). As a means of gaining insight into how to design schools, Catherine...
John Pollard commends a portrayal of the life of a controversial figure - his flaws and his gifts
Anyone reading this book who thought that sustainability was the preserve of small, high-minded companies concerned with the impact of their production methods on people and the planet will be...
Silence has become a fashionable topic in our ceaselessly noisy world. At the last count, a search of the World Wide Web turned up an astounding 293 million or so references about silence ranging...
Why do we play games when we know they make us unhappy? Video games in particular, that is, but games and sport in general, too. Analysis of video games has been an integral part of the theorising of...
Recent research in Germany reveals that one in five students “takes something” to improve academic performance. The substances can range from fairly innocuous caffeine tablets to Ritalin,...
Isabelle Szmigin on how big companies sustain their profits first, and the environment second
Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be...
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China’s Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
Institutions have a delicate line to tread in being open about their organisations versus the pressures of competition