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Does the disembodied Zoom class boost gender equality?
- 4 Mar 2021
Teaching online renders women’s bodies invisible, but are their talking heads really judged on a par with men’s, asks Kate Eichhorn
Teaching intelligence: how to use chatbots to support student learning
- 4 Mar 2021
Anna McKie reports on latest innovations in chatbots and how AI-based technology can be developed to improve teaching and learning in universities
‘Glass cliff’ pioneer aims to keep female scholars from precipice
- 4 Mar 2021
While notching up a leadership position can make a woman a role model, her treatment can be equally influential, professor says
MEP backs European careers framework to tackle research precarity
- 4 Mar 2021
Webinar hears that postdocs are being ‘deprofessionalised’ and encouraged to win grants on behalf of principal investigators
Racial equality efforts ‘must not stop at campus gates’
- 4 Mar 2021
US professor says urban universities have to be better neighbours
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Academics: ‘pretentious fox terriers’ or ‘bad dinner guests’?
- 4 Mar 2021
Researchers look at opinions about scholars expressed via metaphors – with results ranging from the thought-provoking to the baffling
Interview with Susan Trumbore
- 4 Mar 2021
One of the world’s leading experts on the carbon cycle discusses campaigning for Joe Biden as a teenager, the magic of the Amazon rainforest and why she will never give up fieldwork
Interview with Neil Brand
- 22 Feb 2021
The BBC presenter and composer explains why students need music more than ever and how his drama school training influences his music
Online learning not a green panacea, researchers warn
- 22 Feb 2021
Estimate of emissions generated by staff and students during lockdown virtually the same as campus commuting
Professor: End ‘myth’ of marginalised early career researcher
- 22 Feb 2021
Staff who enter higher education in mid-career without a PhD are academia’s ‘proletariat’, not ‘privileged’ young researchers, says paper
Writing lecture notes by hand ‘creates deeper understanding’
- 22 Feb 2021
Researcher says academics should create moments ‘in which students are able to reflect on what they see and hear’
Big lectures ‘a thing of the past’, says Berkeley chancellor
- 22 Feb 2021
Experts say institution’s decision to scrap plans to build ‘gargantuan lecture hall’ provides ammunition to the argument for more evidence-based pedagogical practices
Want to be an innovation hot spot? Don’t copy Silicon Valley
- 22 Feb 2021
Toronto professor offers path to ‘innovation in real places’, arguing that prestige research universities aren’t that important
Nicholas Hitchon: the ‘Seven Up’ scientist known to millions
- 22 Feb 2021
US-based British physicist reflects on his part in the series that has chronicled his life and scientific career
Careers intelligence: how to respond to unsuccessful applicants
- 22 Feb 2021
With more candidates than ever applying for research roles, some scholars are reassessing how they engage with unsuccessful applicants
How academia shunned the science behind the Covid vaccine
- 22 Feb 2021
Katalin Karikó’s struggle with mRNA gives universities mandate – if they want – to tackle persistent barriers
Moving mountains: the reforms that would push academia to new heights
- 22 Feb 2021
Until the pandemic forced teaching to go online almost overnight, universities were widely considered impervious to major change. But if one age-old practice can be flipped on its head, why not others? We ask six academics where they would direct their efforts first
Mariana Mazzucato: ‘I was sick of just being told: “You make me happy”’
- 22 Feb 2021
After her first book, The Entrepreneurial State, catapulted her into the academic stratosphere, the UCL economist has paused her audiences with senior politicians to write a follow-up that uses the Apollo moonshot as a model for a mission-based approach to social challenges
Internationalisation doesn’t appear to be very international
- 15 Feb 2021
The most successful scholars are those who reach out ‘globally’ by publishing in English. But this narrow ‘internationalisation’ should be challenged, says Hanne Tange
How to say no – and do it successfully
- 15 Feb 2021
Mastering the art of saying 'no' is one way academics can protect themselves from spiralling workloads, says psychology lecturer Dean Fido
