Onora O’Neill wins $1 million philosophy prize
Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture recognises lifetime achievement in philosophy and public service
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Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate
Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale
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Video: what does good university teaching look like?
Top UK university lecturers give us their top teaching tips
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Conservatives 2017: reflections from a conference fresher
Universities were never far from the top of the agenda at this year’s Conservative Party conference, writes Diana Beech
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How to be happy: academics advise on what brings joy at work
From neuroscience to philosophy and economics, seven scholars relate what work in their disciplines reveals about the search for #HEhappiness
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Survey results confirm UK university staff's deep dissatisfaction
Extended senior management survey finds that employees are extremely unhappy with the people running universities
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Interview with Shamit Saggar
The new chair of the Campaign for Social Science on ethnic minorities, the similarity between law and academia and universities swallowing the management textbook
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Gerald Bernbaum, 1936-2017
Former vice-chancellor of London South Bank University remembered
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Subject cost data add fuel to England's variable fees debate
Analysis of departmental spending suggests there is a large gulf in costs between some disciplines
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Career advice: how to write a PhD proposal
Pragya Agarwal considers what aspiring doctoral students can do to make their application stand out from the rest
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story, by Miranda Kaufmann
Many immigrants in Renaissance times were not slaves but professionals, learns Lucy Wooding
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Mischka’s War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York, by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Robert Eaglestone praises an absorbing account of eminent scientist Michael Danos’ life that straddles biography and history
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Game Changer: the Techno-Scientific Revolution in Sports, by Rayvon Fouché
Is there anything new in technological advantage adding to sporting prowess, asks Lincoln Allison
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Life Through Time and Space, by Wallace Arthur
Looking outward may give us a better understanding of the progression of life and the inevitability of natural selection, says Tiffany Taylor