Scenic routes
The majority of academics tend to focus on a particular area of research but, as Nancy Rothwell explains, switching to a new sphere of study can be a fruitful - and liberating - experience
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Frozen (political) pawn
How did David Mould end up teaching journalism in Kazakhstan’s frozen capital as a Fulbright fellow? He was a political pawn, he says, just like the (often absent) young people he taught
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The Work of Revision, by Hannah Sullivan
David Gewanter on the Modernist urge to edit
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A World of Excesses: Online Games and Excessive Playing, by Faltin Karlsen
Daria Kuss is impressed with a series of interviews that shed light on the medicalisation of gaming problems
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Victoria’s Madmen: Revolution and Alienation, by Clive Bloom
June Purvis is intrigued by an account of those who swam against the tide in an age of conformity and religious piety
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Careworn was made to care
Stina Lyon lauds a major theorist’s look at a global marketplace where everything’s for sale
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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See no evil
When it comes to plagiarism, the academy would rather see no evil, an anonymous professor warns
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Christ follows Dionysus
Christianity undermined Roman sexuality by giving it a spiritual dimension, finds Candida Moss
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Take LOLCats to the vets
There are better uses for the internet than viewing clips of cats flushing toilets, says Tara Brabazon
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UCU survey shows extent of zero-hours contracts
Union surveys academy’s employment of casualised contracts. John Morgan reports
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UEL’s annus horribilis continues as overseas exams venture is scrapped
The University of East London faces a £600,000 loss from the collapse of an overseas examinations venture, the latest in a series of blows to the institution.University of East London Global...
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News in brief
AustraliaTop whack for top dogsSome Australian university heads are paid 10 times as much as senior lecturers, institutions’ annual accounts for 2012 have shown. The average remuneration package of...
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David Bell, David Eastwood, Pat Hudson, Rebecca Huxley-Binns and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up - 5 September 2013
Underground artThis subterranean art installation, housed in a Victorian ice well beneath the London Canal Museum, was inspired by particle physics. Commissioned by the Institute of Physics,...