Cranfield University: DREAM team set to dig deep into data
Students at a new doctoral training centre will use big data to tackle challenges such as extreme weather and population growth
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Attitudes hold back region, inaugural MENA Universities Summit hears
At THE summit in Qatar, Gulf states hear that culture of entitlement must go
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Dutch PhD candidates fear a downgrade in status
Could minister Jet Bussemaker’s reforms create a ‘second-class’ group of doctoral candidates?
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Shake-up aims to build rapid reaction research force
ESRC intends revised training strategy to better support PhD students and to speed work on new issues. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Grant winners - 5 March 2015
Royal Society/British AcademyNewton International FellowshipsAwarded to non-UK, early career postdoctoral researchers working across all disciplines of the humanities, engineering and natural and...
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Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas
Vasilis Leontitsis weighs arguments for economic reform co-written by a scholar turned Syriza MP
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Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, by Richard Sakwa
John Barber on a powerful critique of Western policy
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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago, by Gillian O’Brien
Sharon Wheeler relishes the detailed research in this true crime tale
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Deborah Cohen, Helen Fulton, Liz Gloyn, Stephen Halliday and R. C. Richardson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History, by David Rosenberg
An engaging account of an unruly city, but why so little on Empire, wonders Danny Dorling
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The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code, by Franklin H. Portugal
Charalambos Kyriacou lauds this account of the life of a humble Nobelist
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Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong, by Timothy Williamson
Catarina Dutilh Novaes on an investigation of the merits and limits of rational debate
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Still Alice, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
Julianne Moore gives a complex, nuanced portrait of a professor confounded and isolated by Alzheimer’s, writes Lucy Bolton
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Canadian studies scholars quit UK foundation
Removal of academic board member from body supporting study of Canada in the UK spurs resignations
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Tales from the precariat: when ‘enough’s enough’
A physicist on the ‘shameless exploitation’ of low-pay sessional lecturing that leaves his family officially classed as ‘poor’