Death may have many dates, conference hears
The Red Barn murder, organ donation and grave re-use were topics at an academic seminar
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Campus close-up: University of Sussex
Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit’s bold bid to find ‘radical solutions’ to global problems will cast the expertise net wide
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UK academy may need diversity quota, says US dean
Head of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business says that changing white male domination may require ‘something dramatic’
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UK’s big guns make a stand for research in Europe
Mass lobby in Brussels for Horizon 2020 funding ‘draws line in the sand’ on cuts
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Subject: how to master your inbox
Many academics suffer ‘email overload’, says one study, which also considers how to get a grip. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Labour’s manifesto plans: not perfect, but not bad
Danny Dorling looks at what the party’s promises would mean for higher education
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The seldom seen world of women without men
Films about female kinship and community are rare, precious exceptions to cinema’s enduring focus on groups of men, says Davina Quinlivan
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Rebecca Bowler, Jeremy Holmes, Richard Joyner, Malcolm Kirkup and Peter J. Smith...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, by Costica Bradatan
Amy Whitworth on a rich examination of philosophers’ ultimate sacrifice
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Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914, by Julie-Marie Strange
Clare Griffiths on a well-researched book that reappraises the role of fathers in social history
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The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction, by Matthew Crawford
The idea that there is too much going on in our lives is itself full of complexities, says Mary Evans
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Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer, by Robert Gay
Dick Hobbs on a study of a career criminal that demystifies gangs and a society that has tried to marginalise them
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The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University, by Larry G. Gerber
David Palfreyman on the effect that the forces of marketisation have had power dynamics within academia
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Defying gravitas
The Poppletonian revisits the question of tone of voice but fails to add gravitas to the discussion (“Nothing to laugh about!”, 16 April). Going forward and beyond tone of voice will be designated by...
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Practical philosophy
A number of universities would like to make the accomplishments of female philosophers not only more widely known but also elevated to “role model status” to help to resolve a gender crisis in the...