From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy, by Mary Harrod
Gemma Edney on the arguments for the academic study of a genre too often dismissed for being à l’Américaine
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Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More than It Thinks, by Guy Claxton
From emotions to waiting tables, our physical frame deserves more credit, finds Joanna Bryson
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The week in higher education – 17 September 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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What are you reading? – 17 September 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Eternal dilemmas: interview with Mark Edmundson
Are you an idealist or a pragmatist? In his latest book, Self and Soul, Edmundson aims to provide fresh insights into how we might choose to live our lives
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What academics really do on their summer ‘holidays’
A long break sounds luxurious but what is the reality? Scholars share what they did with their ‘free’ time
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To stop REF game playing, why not let everyone take part?
David Price argues that axeing staff selection would remove the temptation to manipulate data and protect careers
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What have we learned from the Reproducibility Project?
Did a huge research replication exercise do a power of good? ask Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone
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Grant winners – 17 September 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 17 September 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Agreeing on the unequivocal
The Higher Education Policy Institute’s reports are meant to encourage debate, so it is good to see Howard Hotson’s response to our latest publication, Keeping up with the Germans, which I wrote (“...