Stephen Mumford tells Matthew Reisz about his desire to bring his discipline to a wider audience, why Norway was the perfect place to write his Cartesian debut novel and why insights into causation...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on the gruelling truths faced by injured soldiers, and their carers and families
In his new column that will focus on unusual books and interesting developments in academic publishing, Matthew Reisz considers a strange and mind-bendingly entertaining book
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
Few in academia will have celebrated Brexit’s first anniversary but the unpredictable year since the vote has shown the power of a united voice
Edward Peck, the vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University, argues “Don’t attack the TEF, embrace it” (Opinion, 23 June). Such a view makes me despair. The teaching excellence framework does not...
Re your story on the University of Northampton’s new campus, “Hot-desking appears on horizon as Waterside project nears completion” (News, 22 June). I remember being without a designated office space...
I have a great deal of sympathy with the views of Philip Chan about the diversion of funds from teaching student doctors to research (“Medical education is a rich patient at risk of being bled dry”,...
Some time ago, I wrote lamenting the demise of the external examiner on undergraduate degree programmes. We have just had the exam board meeting for final-year students, and what a dirge this has...