How will interdisciplinarity be assessed in the REF?
The research excellence framework’s panels will look at factors including adventurousness, disciplinary diversity and methodological clarity, predicts Martin Willis
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Interview with Suzie Imber
The Leicester space physicist on winning Astronauts, exploring uncharted mountains, and scientists’ social skills
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Value-added working is less taxing
Focusing on your own priorities makes it possible to enjoy an easier and more productive working life, says Mark Reed
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Scientists must push to end the reefer madness
Squeamishness about advocacy is out of date. Evidence and freedom of enquiry must be defended, says Aymen Idris
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Nobel prizes 2017: panel honours advancements to science
Scientific developments from the microscopic to intergalactic deemed worthy of this year’s awards
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‘I understand anger over v-c pay’, says new Cambridge head
Institution’s Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university’s student intake in THE interview
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Leading a double life: academics with extraordinary second careers
Academic work is typically all-consuming, but some scholars still manage to combine some eye-catching sidelines with their day jobs. Here, five tell their stories
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Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia, by Alessandro Orsini
A study of far-right fringe groups in Italy is too forgiving and uncritical, says R. J. B. Bosworth
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right, by George Hawley
Matthew Feldman praises a sharp and clear-sighted examination of the new extreme forms of right-wing politics in the US
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Books interview: Kristen Ghodsee
The scholar of East European studies and author of Red Hangover on reading for escape, quoting Lenin at the Model United Nations and understanding everyday life ‘behind the Iron Curtain’
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Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death, by Adrian Owen
An unsettling study of patients in comas reveals that consciousness endures, says Shane O’Mara
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The Biopolitics of Gender, by Jemima Repo
A provocative study into a controversial subject is let down by a dense, academic style, says Deborah D. Rogers
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English university funding ‘up in the air’ as review looms
Observers say key issue is whether review’s remit is wide-ranging, or set to predetermined objectives