Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and their Animals in Early Modern England, by Erica Fudge
Ann Hughes visits a time when relationships with animals combined affection and pragmatism
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To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd
Kristen R. Ghodsee learns how Western cultural products imported into the Soviet Union allowed people to travel in their imaginations, despite being physically restricted
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New and noteworthy – 17 January 2019
Edward Said’s influential imperial critique, Alexander the Great’s long artistic afterlife, mosquitoes’ place in empire, and black activists’ efforts to ‘decolonise Britain’
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Academics who work when sick risk burnout, professor warns
Survey of more than 5,000 UK researchers finds about half keep working when they are unwell
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The week in higher education – 17 January 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Third of PhD students in Europe ‘fail to complete in six years’
Supervision highlighted as a ‘big challenge’ in wake of study on doctoral educationÂ
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Admissions lotteries could help bring the elite down to earth
Hyper-selective universities help create the outrageous arrogance of some politicians. A bit of randomness in the process could lead to more humble leaders, argues David Matthews
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Interview with Aine Duffy
The Central European University’s new director of communications talks radical nuns, leaving Ireland aged 18 and why her role is the most exciting in her profession
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Margaret Garb, 1962-2018
Scholar of race and urban history remembered
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University ties in spotlight as Western anxiety over Huawei grows
Institutions seek guidance over links to Chinese company but are told that it is not their role to start a ‘new Cold War’
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English v-cs believe mergers will rescue failing universities
PA Consulting survey finds many leaders see outright university closures as ‘politically and socially unconscionable’
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Academic partnerships are more than ‘a pissing contest’
Matthew Reisz considers the advantages – and the challenges – of long-term scholarly alliances and the role that gender can playÂ
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Reimagining higher education relationships in England
Universities would do well to share common operations and services while maintaining a healthy level of competition, argue Mike Boxall and Ian MattiasÂ
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Research intelligence: how to promote your work online
Scholars offer their advice on the art of promoting research online