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Are universities encouraging students to believe hard study is bad for their mental health?
- 3 Apr 2020
It is widely acknowledged that universities need to do more to support student mental health. Yet many academics and service staff are worried that well-intentioned initiatives pathologise ordinary anxieties and can do harm as well as good. Kathryn Ecclestone listens to their concerns
How to administer the digital migration
- 3 Apr 2020
Swift decisions are needed on contact hours, attendance and assessment, says Benjamin Tak Yuen Chan
Interview with Marcelle McManus
- 3 Apr 2020
The renewable technologies expert discusses being told there was ‘no future in sustainability’ and why cloning herself would be useful
Research intelligence: how to run a research team remotely
- 3 Apr 2020
As campuses and labs close amid the coronavirus crisis, Jack Grove hears how senior scientists are managing their teams and research projects
Universities shift focus towards SDGs to prove societal value
- 26 Mar 2020
But institutions warned against United Nations framework becoming a ‘tick-box exercise’
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Interview with Christine Loh
- 26 Mar 2020
The environmentalist discusses her multicultural family, her many divergent careers paths and not becoming ‘complacent’
Virus’ constant ‘emergency mode’ heaps pressure on researchers
- 26 Mar 2020
Professor helping to advise ministers says meeting daily deadlines for the government makes it difficult to share findings and research with standard ‘polish’
Struggling to focus at home? You’re not alone
- 26 Mar 2020
Finding writing partners online can impose some productive accountability, says Alice Kelly
Why I had to quit
- 20 Mar 2020
Sexism, unthinking managerialism and toxic ‘them and us’ attitudes are still pervasive within UK universities, according to an anonymous academic who found the dissonances between her values, career expectations and lived reality too much to bear
Einstein ‘not a good role model’ for budding scientists
- 20 Mar 2020
People may be more motivated to pursue a STEM career by figures thought of as ‘persistent’ but not geniuses
Athena SWAN revamp urged as academics lose faith in awards
- 20 Mar 2020
Independent steering group says new processes must stop penalising those it is supposed to help and restore confidence in the award
Interview with Kate Lister
- 20 Mar 2020
Sex historian Kate Lister on her unusual sleeping habits, Victorian pornography and challenging the stigma of sex work
Teaching intelligence: how to take your classes online
- 20 Mar 2020
Many universities have begun to teach online amid concerns that traditional classes could spread the coronavirus. Yale-NUS lecturer Catherine Shea Sanger explains how it can be done quickly and effectively
Lecturers need to stop trying to micromanage their students’ lives
- 18 Mar 2020
Douglas Dowland considers the damage inflicted by the control freaks of the academy – and some of the ways he has found to keep his own inner control freak in line
Mock REFs need a neutral referee
- 12 Mar 2020
Consulting citation data would ameliorate the all-too-human shortcomings of departmental review, says a Russell Group professor
Interview with Friederike Otto
- 12 Mar 2020
The weather attribution pioneer explains how her field has transformed what researchers can say about climate change – and what's she’s learned about communicating results
Time to re-examine the Humboldtian model, says Schmidt
- 11 Mar 2020
Funding designed around a ‘false premise’ that every university is research-intensive, says Nobel laureate
Interview with Baroness Hale
- 5 Mar 2020
The former president of the Supreme Court, now a UCL honorary professor, discusses being a ‘speccy swot’ and the need to protect the ‘cardinal principles of our constitution’
Career advice: how to get promoted after joining academia late
- 5 Mar 2020
Despite boasting years of experience in industry, scholars with professional backgrounds can find it hard to get ahead
Cyberbullying by students in course evaluations should not be tolerated
- 5 Mar 2020
Abuse of anonymity is damaging for both academics and students. It should lead to serious consequences, says Stefan Cantore
