The Other Catholics: Remaking America鈥檚 Largest Religion, by Julie Byrne
Jane Shaw on a brilliant study of independent churches in the US
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The week in higher education 鈥 30 June 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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The Quantified Self, by Deborah Lupton
What are the downsides to being able to monitor so many physical activities? asks Marcus聽Chown
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Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security, by Simon Cottle, Richard Sambrook and Nick Mosdell
Ivor Gaber welcomes a work that gives overdue attention to the risks that members of the press and those who help them too often face
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New and noteworthy 鈥 30 June 2016
Spain鈥檚 Left turn, legible ethnography, the Arab Spring鈥檚 bodies of evidence and Walter Benjamin鈥檚 Wunderkammer: must-read monographs
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Is there a problem with academic integrity?
A survey suggests research misconduct in the UK is higher than previously feared. Joanna Williams and five other academics ponder the results
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 30 June 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The ABC of Brazil鈥檚 Federal University of ABC
By limiting its scope and eschewing academic departments, a campus in Latin America has left room for tradition and transformation, says Klaus Capelle
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The TEF: trading standards whose time has come
Students are dangerously unclear on the value of their high-ticket education, says David Palfreyman. We urgently need 鈥榗ontracts to educate鈥
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Channelling Brexit anger
Most academics are not naturally angry people. We live in a world where statements are made only after careful hypothesis testing, where data are analysed meticulously, where conclusions report what...
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Things past
Professor Barbara Taylor recalls that the late Raphael Samuel was 鈥渋mpatient with the way history was taught at Oxford, where the syllabus included little about working people鈥 (鈥淒eath of radical...
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Pitch perfect
David Toop surely could try harder in struggling to think about fiction about music or musicians that doesn鈥檛 ring false (鈥淏ooks interview: David Toop鈥, Books, 23 June). There is a whole tradition of...
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Young researchers 'strive for impact'
Academics split over importance of research impact
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EU Referendum: Digesting a shock to the system
Post-Brexit years will be full of uncertainty that will take its toll on the sector even if worst-case scenarios don鈥檛 come to pass