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Matthew Reisz was books editor as well as a features writer and reporter, until the end of 2021. He continues to write for Times Higher Education.
He grew up in London and studied Classics and French at Balliol College, Oxford. He has since worked as a journalist, editor, copywriter, ghost-writer and translator. He was, for several years, editor of the Jewish Quarterly and has also compiled and presented programmes for BBC Radio.
He was the 2009 winner of the National Education Journalist of the Year award, run by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Articles by Matthew Reisz
This mosaic made of bread, titled Host, was originally put on display in Winchester Cathedral as part of this year's Hyde900 festival celebrating the 900th anniversary of the foundation of nearby Hyde Abbey.
Conference debates role of alternative therapies in mental health services. Matthew Reisz reports
This ostrich egg was carved in 1766 to commemorate the death of the "Old Pretender", James Francis Edward Stuart - who, had the Jacobite rising of 1715 been successful, would have become King James III of England and James VIII of Scotland.
'Tsunami of reforms' may favour sciences but all is not lost, conference hears. Matthew Reisz reports
Shifting ideas of 'honour' have played a role in atrocities such as foot binding and the slave trade, but the concept can also be used to change entrenched views and end injustices, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah tells Matthew Reisz
A series of debates aims to explore the big issues in gender-related research. Matthew Reisz reports
"Smugglerius", the cast of a flayed man or écorche, is still sometimes used to teach students at the Edinburgh College of Art.
Academy's challenges feature among wide-ranging, myth-popping debates. Matthew Reisz reports
Disastrous defeat in the Franco-Prussian War led to the birth of the Paris Commune in 1871. A self-governing republican council took over the city and refused to accept a humiliating peace treaty signed by the provisional government.
New wave of creative-writing courses embrace the notion of marketability. Matthew Reisz reports
For decades, gay men lived in a 'virtual' world outside the mainstream, so links between the subculture and the web are both logical and ripe for scrutiny. Matthew Reisz cruises the 'queer digital spaces' with academic Sharif Mowlabocus
At a time when public finances were in a dire state and much of the country was still badly bomb-damaged, the 1951 Festival of Britain provided a perfect "tonic for the nation".
Ian Christie talks to Matthew Reisz about the film world's fascination with reading rooms
Modern languages should be a passport to life, so why are so few students queuing up to learn them? In a special report on Britain's linguistic skills gap, Matthew Reisz discovers that, globally speaking, we are missing out
Martha Nussbaum fears our critical culture, inculcated by a liberal arts education, is under attack, with democracy itself coming under threat. Matthew Reisz thinks her case is overstated
Ten years of study with no sign of a degree points to an academy in crisis. Matthew Reisz reports
A pound's worth of small change, held in a tin in the bursar's office, was transformed into a lump of metal when an incendiary bomb hit Bedford College on the night of 10-11 May 1941.
LSE professor opens debate through his weekly essay on human rights. Matthew Reisz reports
BBC Four aims to touch parts of the brain other channels do not reach. Matthew Reisz speaks to Richard Klein, its controller, who says that academics, together with their passions, have key roles to play in the channel's programming
