Chris McGuigan, 1958-2016
A skilful and charismatic ‘drug hunter’ has died
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PhDs: ‘toxic’ supervisors and ‘students from hell’
How should universities handle breakdowns in PhD student-supervisor relationships?
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Knowledge transfer: is this ‘third mission’ a mission impossible?
Academic casts doubt on universities’ spin-off success and impact on SMEs
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Children of single parents ‘marginalised’ in higher education
Offspring of lone parents are an overlooked group in widening participation, study suggests
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Obsolescence: An Architectural History, by Daniel M. Abramson
Before our obsession with sustainability, we liked our buildings disposable, says Annmarie Adams
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The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years that Shook the World, by Jonathan D. Smele
Lara Douds-Cook welcomes a colourful compendium of overlapping conflicts in a disintegrating and reconfiguring empire
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Universities clash over future of REF
Russell Group and University Alliance at loggerheads over whether next research excellence framework should assess more at university level
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New and noteworthy – 7 April 2016
Dutch goddesses, the tragedy of the commons, Justin Trudeau’s dad and putting what’s left of the UK’s family silver to good use: must-read academic titles
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What are you reading? – 7 April 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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History’s People: Personalities and the Past, by Margaret MacMillan
A. W. Purdue on a perceptive look at those who shaped, and were shaped by, their times
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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, by Laura Horak
Who wears the trousers? Women often played men in early Hollywood, and few were anything like the ‘monstrous butch’ archetype, Leanne Dawson finds
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15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun, by Lucie Green
Book of the week: The Sun’s magnetic fields make it much more than a dull ball of hot gas, says Marcus Chown
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My terrifying – and valuable – time in a psychiatric ward
During a bout of severe depression, a professor in the US was admitted to a secure hospital unit. He writes here of his experiences
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Do academic social networks share academics’ interests?
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing
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The week in higher education – 7 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press