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Are universities encouraging students to believe hard study is bad for their mental health?
03/04/2020
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
03/04/2020
Swift decisions are needed on contact hours, attendance and assessment, says Benjamin Tak Yuen Chan -
Interview with Marcelle McManus
03/04/2020
The renewable technologies expert discusses being told there was ‘no future in sustainability’ and why cloning herself would be useful -
As campuses and labs close amid the coronavirus crisis, Jack Grove hears how senior scientists are managing their teams and research projects
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But institutions warned against United Nations framework becoming a ‘tick-box exercise’
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Interview with Christine Loh
26/03/2020
The environmentalist discusses her multicultural family, her many divergent careers paths and not becoming ‘complacent’ -
Professor helping to advise ministers says meeting daily deadlines for the government makes it difficult to share findings and research with standard ‘polish’
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Finding writing partners online can impose some productive accountability, says Alice Kelly
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Why I had to quit
20/03/2020
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 -
People may be more motivated to pursue a STEM career by figures thought of as ‘persistent’ but not geniuses
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Independent steering group says new processes must stop penalising those it is supposed to help and restore confidence in the award
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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
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Interview with Kate Lister
20/03/2020
Sex historian Kate Lister on her unusual sleeping habits, Victorian pornography and challenging the stigma of sex work -
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
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Mock REFs need a neutral referee
12/03/2020
Consulting citation data would ameliorate the all-too-human shortcomings of departmental review, says a Russell Group professor -
Interview with Friederike Otto
12/03/2020
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 -
Funding designed around a ‘false premise’ that every university is research-intensive, says Nobel laureate
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Despite boasting years of experience in industry, scholars with professional backgrounds can find it hard to get ahead
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Interview with Baroness Hale
05/03/2020
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’ -
Abuse of anonymity is damaging for both academics and students. It should lead to serious consequences, says Stefan Cantore
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