Is self-promotion hurting scholarship?
Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy
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American Niceness: A Cultural History, by Carrie Tirado Bramen
Book of the week: Behind a veneer of amiability, Randy Malamud finds discord, cruelty and a ‘cultural charade’
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What are you reading? – 17 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Birds, bees, trees and other queer causes
Matthew Reisz wonders how nature’s polymorphous perversity will win support for the political cause of sexual equality
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University financial health check 2017: future prospects?
UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to...
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All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist
Dame Sue Black’s pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field
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Any port in a storm
While Laurie Taylor is away, guest holiday columnist Christopher Bigsby offers a tragic tale of an errant email, a Classics professor and a vengeful vice-chancellor
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World in brief – 17 August 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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Plan for the unimaginable
Universities used to be thought unsinkable, but the unthinkable – an institution going to the wall – is now a genuine, if yet remote, prospect
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UK must fight to stay in Erasmus+
Paul James Cardwell suggests that “UK students ‘may be barred from Erasmus after Brexit’” (Opinion, 10 August). He is right to insist on the value of Erasmus+ exchanges for UK students, in particular...
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Read me first
Re “Research in social science may well be doomed unless we act” (Opinion, 10 August). Why not simply say that less research should be funded until more of it has been read properly? The main problem...
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Predatory points
The 10 August issue of Times Higher Education had two articles the same topic – predatory journals. One, by Roger Watson (“Fight fraudulent journals”, Opinion), offers suggestions to universities on...
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Open optimism
In her article “Open access monograph dash could lead us off a cliff” (Opinion, 27 July), Marilyn Deegan warns of the dangers of open access monograph publishing. As head of UCL Press, the UK’s first...