Place-hacker Bradley Garrett: research at the edge of the law
Bradley Garrett, whose fieldwork was seized and used in court against the urban explorers he studied, says researchers need clear support

Bradley Garrett, whose fieldwork was seized and used in court against the urban explorers he studied, says researchers need clear support

Focus on league tables could shift Middle Eastern universities from honourable priorities, argues Cesar Wazen

Tony Mann enjoys a fresh application of complex mathematical thinking to commonplace events

Confidential concerns - Does research involving those at the edge of the law need better protection?

Lecturer Emma Rees has 65 essays to mark. But first, Iced Gems, tea, more tea…

Up to 120 positions to be lost across three health schools
Re What are you reading? (Books, 15 May). Sir David Bell’s choice, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life, could not have come from a more appropriate publishing house – Vintage.Peter B. BakerLondon
This magazine recently highlighted the fact that Kinki University in Japan is anxious to change its name, and you invited us at Bishop Grosseteste University to consider a similar move (The week in...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is annoyed by students’ ignorance of their own language (“Irrevocably tongue-tied”, Opinion, 22 May): they submit essays riddled with repetition, clichés, jargon and the...
I retired from a Russell Group university on 30Â September 2011, so was ineligible by one day to negotiate an extension to my career in light of the abolition of the default retirement age on 1Â ...
Many subtle features of Eastern European authoritarianism have been adopted in the process of creeping Stalinisation by the managers of UK universities (“My rallies of endeavour will ensure the...
I read with considerable disquiet the letter from Sir David Bell, the vice-chancellor of the University of Reading (“Forum for the Future”, Letters, 29 May).Vice-chancellors do, of course, need to...

A geologist who traded a life of adventure for a highly successful career as a Harvard science journalist has died

We speak to the Irish poet who is to take up the post of distinguished professor in English and creative writing at Lancaster University

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