How the social sciences can embrace the big data revolution
Training, bold interdisciplinary partnerships and ābridging skillsā are all essential for social scientists who want to make best use of all the data now available to them

Training, bold interdisciplinary partnerships and ābridging skillsā are all essential for social scientists who want to make best use of all the data now available to them

Paul Drechsler calls for āhonestā debate about role of immigration in UK economy

Book of the week: A history of the fight to share elite spaces focuses on gender over race and class, says Mary Evans

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Celestial bodies are stripped of mystery in a lively guide that sounds a warning, says Marcus Chown

Simon Underdown on a historian contemplating future challenges arising from modern lifestyles and technology

Claims for genius require more than repeated assertion to make the case, says MartinĀ Cohen

This provocative argument for the importance of number in the humanities is full of wit and insight, says Tony Mann

But academics argue against narrow teaching focus and warn that technical skills have a āhalf-lifeā

The author of Lenin on the Train reminisces about Alain-Fournierās Le Grand Meaulnes, and talks about travel books as histories and the āsurreal time and placeā of revolutionary Russia

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the worldās media

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