Cancer Research UK’s £100m aims to meet ‘grand challenges’
Iain Foulkes on how scientists can win part of huge grant to push forward the frontiers of cancer research
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Interview with Reina Lewis
We speak to the London College of Fashion professor and author of a new book on Muslim fashion
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UEA launches green space for entrepreneurial students and businesses to collide
University of East Anglia centre hosts two master’s courses in space with writable walls and adaptable furniture
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Campus chemistry and physics departments running ‘substantial deficits’
Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics report warns of uncertain future
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Is backstage plotting a good thing in higher education?
Machiavellian tactics used by university leaders and their minions are often viewed as malevolent, but they are vital to running an organisation, says new study
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‘Striking’ inequalities in higher education fuel gender pay gap
The UK’s female academics are paid £6,146 less on average than men, with lack of women in leadership and management roles a factor, says new report
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Another Green World: Linn Botanic Gardens – Encounters with a Scottish Arcadia, by Alison Turnbull with Philip Hoare
The history of a sanctuary where science meets art is an emotionally charged work, says Timothy Mowl
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The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society, by Ann Larabee
Howard P. Segal on a brilliant study exploring the conflict between free speech and instruction guides that may be used for violence
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Books interview: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Vespucci, French military glory and recondite legal strategies: bibliographic confessions from the author of A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change – and the Limits of Evolution
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Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, by Robert Gildea
A. W. Purdue on a study of the disparate groups in a movement often thought of as a united force
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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