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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
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
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
Women make progress on authorship but miss grants and patents
- 5 Mar 2020
Large-scale analysis of data on published research suggests female academics now outnumber men in some fields, but significant inequalities remain
Should you be working 100 hours a week?
- 20 Feb 2020
Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven academics have their say
Precarity has a long hangover
- 19 Feb 2020
Long after they have finally landed a full-time job, many academics still find themselves feeling insecure and guilty, says Rachel Moss Twitter: @menysnoweballes
Career advice: how to lead a research team
- 7 Apr 2017
Five top European academics offer advice on how to mentor, manage and expand a research team.
Career advice: how to handle an internal interview
- 7 Apr 2017
Our panel of leading university administrators explain how applicants should approach a meeting of this kind at their institution.
Academic advice: where to find it, and how to get the most out of it
- 7 Apr 2017
We all need good advice – the problem is making sure you know where to find it, and how to accept it, says John Tregoning.
Do international research posts improve your academic job prospects?
- 7 Apr 2017
Anxieties over overseas posts largely overlooked as academy highlights benefits of global mobility, researchers claim.