No One Will Let Her Live: Women’s Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum, by Claire Snell-Rood
Caroline Osella on a fieldwork-based study of the attachments that develop among those in shanty towns
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What are you reading? – 5 November 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, by Gabriel Zucman
Richard Murphy praises a bold effort to halt tax-dodging by the 1 per cent
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Journal impact factors ‘no longer credible’
The measure of scholarly impact is now being manipulated so much that it has ceased to be meaningful, editorial claims
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‘First large-scale evidence’ that graduates from prestige universities dominate elite
Data from 80,000 graduates in Great British Class Survey show social hierarchy of UK higher education
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Life on the body farm
Matthew Reisz on the scientific benefits of leaving corpses out to rot
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Government threatened London Met over visa licence unless governor was removed
UKBA accused of interference in institution’s governance after controversial election of Jawad Botmeh
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Beware self-sabotage effect of TEF, warns Oxford v-c
International competitors will be ‘licking their lips’ if the UK labels some universities as weaker on teaching, says Andrew Hamilton ahead of his departure
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Black and ethnic minorities still have mountains to climb in higher education
More BME staff have been entering the UK academy but they remain under-represented at the top. What is being done about it?
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The week in higher education – 5 November 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners – 5 November 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash