Interview with Jackie Hunter
We talk to the research council CEO about pharmaceutical drugs modelling and a childhood interest in studying animal remains
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UK universities aim to win Chinese hearts through their stomachs
British catering bosses have flown East to learn how to feed what is an increasingly vital student market. Richard McComb reports from China
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How many hours a week should academics work?
Some surveys show faculty putting in at least 60 hours a week, but research casts doubt on whether this is a productive routine
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University of Derby institute seeks to sharpen police practice worldwide
International Policing and Justice Institute integrates practical police training into an academic context
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How womanhood has shaped manhood
Two researchers have got to grips with the evolution of the penis
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Brian Schmidt to ‘use Nobel prize’ for wider benefits as ANU v-c
Astronomer comes with experience of running winery and pitches salary so he is not seen as ‘outsider’ by staff
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THE announces the most international universities in the world in 2016
Qatar University tops list while the UK is the most outward-looking nation
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Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, by Bernard E. Harcourt
We are sleepwalking towards virtual transparency after an oversharing binge, discovers Paul Bernal
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Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present, by Gary Gerstle
Elizabeth Cobbs on an enlightening and alarming study of how the central state has had to fight for its legitimacy
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New and noteworthy – 14 January 2016
From Soviet tanks on the streets of Hungary to the 30th birthday of a founding text of queer studies: academic books worth adding to your reading list
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Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom, by Steven Salaita
Joanna Williams on a controversial academic’s interpretation of where the boundaries lie
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The Invention of God, by Thomas Römer
Scholarship, not ideology, drives this welcome effort to determine what is historical and what is not in the depiction of God, says Robert A. Segal
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What are you reading? – 14 January 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 14 January 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power, by Svetlana Stephenson
Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema