Academics’ top tips for publishing success
Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews
Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews
Steven Rose on an eloquent explanation of the rapid mechanisms of human cognitive evolution
With the holiday season upon us, five academics suggest some unique destinations you may want to consider – or perhaps not
Trump’s election and Brexit constitute a Great Event, which presages dark days ahead, argues Nicholas Boyle
Possible domino effect could weaken Europe as an academic powerhouse, says Maastricht University’s Martin Paul, but collaboration can and must continue
As some newly arrived students filed out of a lecture theatre recently, I overheard one plaintive youngster declare that she was going to struggle with the module because she "was not very good at...
A scholar’s project on Lewis Carroll’s heroine helps an institution boost its links with the capital’s museums
Lecturer Ann Rogerson on the telltale signs of the ghostwriter’s presence. Plus the latest higher education appointments
Vernon Bogdanor has a few points of order on an analysis of political fiction’s wider effects
Biancamaria Fontana on the tangled connections between historical events and mental illness
On the bicentenary of the Irish writer’s birth, Bill McCormack weighs his preoccupation with family, guilt, dualism and the disappeared
Jon Marcus examines the decline of all-female institutions in the West and their rising popularity in the developing world
Scholars and senior sector figures on two books they plan to devour on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of revisiting
Medical students are renowned for their antics, but stuffing the remains of a walrus into a coffin would seem extreme even for them. But this could be a possible explanation for the puzzling...
Medical students are renowned for their antics, but stuffing the remains of a walrus into a coffin would seem extreme even for them. But this could be a possible explanation for the puzzling...