Does an institution have to collectively consult over the reasons for redundancy?
By Diane Gilhooley

If academic recognition in the form of prizes is important to you, you should aim to publishing in leading journals and networking as much as possible.
It is the news story that just will not go away for the Government. On 10 January, The Guardian’s political pundit Michael White waded into the row over ministers’ plans to cut ?100 million funding...

Defoe, Pope, Eliot, Bronte: Duncan Wu on the literary lights with a weakness for pseudonyms.
Historians often have to tread a fine line. On the one hand, there is the ideal of historical objectivity and unbiased research, however fractured this admittedly unattainable goal may appear to...
1. Integrated Dental Treatment Planning: A Case-Based Approach by Elizabeth J. Kay, Ann C. Shearer, Andrea M. Bridgman and Gerald M. Humphris. Oxford University Press, £25.99 ISBN 9780198528890.2....
Sex in the academy dates back to Socrates, but universities today still struggle to deal with the issue. Alan Ryan considers the conundrum of student-staff relationships.
Academic Shakespeare is shattered. In place of the assumptions of transcendent greatness, universality and entirety, iconoclastic Shakespeare rejects canonical status, eschews ideas of organic...

Alex Danchev tackles an unsettling subject
John Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot by Anna Beer, Bloomsbury, £20.00, ISBN 9780747584254."Anna Beer's (lecturer in literature and a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford) biography is scholarly,...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a sea-faring voyage of self-discovery:"Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common...
Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music was written for the general reader, and it is to his credit that many parts of this book are interesting and stimulating. I can see how it might help to...
Anthropology• At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings By Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, associate professor, head of the department of sociology and honorary academic director of...
The Technology Strategy Board has £1bn to invest in industry-focused R&D, writes Zoe Corbyn.