Xenofeminism, by Helen Hester
Emma Rees on a challenging study that leads to flashbacks of Foucault and Xena: Warrior Princess

Emma Rees on a challenging study that leads to flashbacks of Foucault and Xena: Warrior Princess

Christopher Hill on how internal national tensions have come up against the structures of the EU

Keith Kahn-Harris on a pan-European event that is as much about competition and national identities as it is cooperation and friendship

Quality an ‘urgent concern’ as study reveals significant growth of private sector worldwide

The quantum computing pioneer and Australian of the Year talks about growing up in south-east London, creating the new field of atomic electronics and how to get more women into science

Fears that the arrival of foreign universities could decimate native provision have apparently been set aside by ministers, writes Martin Surya Mulyadi

Academic focus on ideas from a small range of European countries would not be tolerated in other disciplines, says Lloyd Strickland

Privatisation or nationally funded consortia are the only solutions to US public education’s financial malaise, says Sheldon H. Jacobson

The internet impedes human interactions, warps civilised discourse and aggravates misunderstandings, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Book of the week: Russia’s power plays with its neighbours may be tied to its lack of civic maturity, says Lara Douds

The author and professor of sociology and philosophy of law discusses Vonnegut, pre-communist histories and the EU’s present and future

For academics and students alike, pressure to perform coupled with a lack of institutional support can severely affect mental health

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

The frenzied pace and meaningless demands of university life can often enable a depressed scholar’s existing neuroses. Joe Moran offers some coping strategies

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media