The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science, by Jan Golinski
Richard Joyner on a biography seeking to reveal the chemist’s talent for reinvention
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What are you reading? – 5 May 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
Book of the week: A spirited palaeobotanist’s memoir splices flora with friendship and family, says Cait MacPhee
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The battle for the Indian mind
What do protests at the University of Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru University tell us about India’s ‘messy democracy’?
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Shutting apprenticeships to graduates is unfair and cruel
Young people and employers are ill served by the government’s divisive move, which creates an unlevel playing field, argues Philip Cowan
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Grant winners – 5 May 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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The impact agenda is starting to fail those it was meant to benefit
In chasing REF points, academics may risk their public standing and undermine work with potentially profound effects, argues Mark Reed
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How welcoming is academia to LGBT staff?
By some measures, universities are wonderfully accommodating workplaces for gays and lesbians. Six academics give us their perspective
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The risks of Soviet-style managerialism in UK universities
Craig Brandist on the proletarianisation of a profession and how it leads to behaviours that could hobble higher education
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Privacy debate is not simple or settled
Ron Iphofen claims to broadly favour protecting safety or security over protecting privacy (or at least the concept of privacy that he is confident is becoming fast outdated) (“Safety is more...
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The nitty-gritty
Character education, which was discussed in your article “Can academics change their students’ personalities?” (News, 27 April) is not an antidote to social advantage, and Nik Miller, director of the...
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It’s good to give
The immediate answer to the question “why should graduates donate to their alma maters?”, which Richard Budd poses in his blog post “Isn’t asking for alumni donations, well, just weird?” (25 April),...
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Cafe culture
When I arrived at the University of the West of England, the applied sciences department had no staffroom, no tea and coffee; just the cafes on campus (“Members-only staffroom splits opinion”, News,...