Research methods explored in new large-scale video collection
Collection of almost 500 videos looks at everything from planning to presentation
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Promoted from doctor to professor: what changes?
Scholars share what the title means to them and offer the newly promoted advice on handling the status update
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EU to ‘improve and maximise’ impact of research
Critics fear focus on research impact in next funding programme could lead to a REF-type exercise
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Is film a useful way to showcase research?
Matthew Reisz examines the pros and cons of using film as a form of public engagement
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The week in higher education – 10 November 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Freud: In His Time and Ours, by Élisabeth Roudinesco
Book of the week: New sources yield fresh insights and oversights by the father of psychoanalysis, says Janet Sayers
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Laurie Taylor – 10 November 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture, by Julie Peakman
Karen Harvey on a cultural history of sexuality that attempts to put real people centre stage
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The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less is More – More or Less, by Emrys Westacott
Martin Cohen on the philosophical implications of living the simple life – and owning a homemade toilet-brush holder
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Books interview: Chris Knight
The radical anthropologist and author of Decoding Chomsky traces his interest in animal behaviour, tribal customs and language back to Doctor Dolittle via Tolstoy, Engels and Marx
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What are you reading? – 10 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy, by Trebor Scholz
Cheap taxis come at a price but remodelling the online marketplace is an option, says Kylie Jarrett
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The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition, by William Kolbrener
A study offers a new perspective on one of the most important yet elusive Jewish thinkers of the past century
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Brexodus: the world’s highly skilled have options other than the UK
It’s not just EU nationals that universities should worry about losing, says Timothy Devinney, and a shrinking pound won’t help