Tara Brabazon: YouTube has merit, but enough already of cat videos
There are plenty of opportunities for academics to take advantage of social media, but it’s important to separate the gems of revelation from the nonsense
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Business fails to rise to Government’s R&D challenge
Midway through ten-year framework, investment remains ‘relatively static’ as percentage of GDP. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Science, we have a problem
Debate leads to anger over Lord Drayson’s accusation that scientists don’t fully recognise their accountability to taxpayers. Zoë Corbyn reports
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The insecure scholar: Playing the application game
Grappling with the frustrating process of applying for grants
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Creative thinking ‘not rated’ by state
Academics claim STEM policies threaten UK’s ‘last remaining world-leading sector’. Hannah Fearn reports
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Opinion: The liberation look
The feminist struggle in the 1970s against discriminatory dress codes remains relevant today, says Clare Rose
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Government axemen on the lookout for targets
Universities UK head is ‘bluntly’ quizzed over where cuts should be made. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Sussex’s future: fewer staff, more students
University plans 100 ‘targeted’ job cuts while increasing student numbers. John Morgan reports
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Push to bring digital economy together will divide it
The Government’s plan for the digital sector displays a lack of understanding of the new modes of cultural production, argue Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka
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MRC head to take top job at Cambridge
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz will take the reins in October 2010. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Book of the week: No Enchanted Palace
Simon Rushton on a unorthodox account of how the UN was born
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Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture
Words and meanings change over time, but this narrative leaves Lynne Segal craving more analysis
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The Historiographic Perversion
While the mass killings of the Armenians in 1915, which claimed more than 1 million lives, have been recognised as a genocide by many historians and more than 20 governments around the world, there...
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The Canon: Les Regles de l'Art: Genese et Structure du Champ Litteraire. By Pierre Bourdieu
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is perhaps best known for La Distinction (1979), but it is his 1992 work Les Regles de l'Art that in my view best sums up the themes he explored...
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The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World
To tackle the Earth's problems, we must look at the culture behind them, finds Laurence Coupe