Van stalls
I very much enjoyed the eulogy of Van Morrison by neuropsychiatrist Ray Dolan ("And he stoned me", Features, 24 May). But maybe that is because I too am a long-time "Van the Man" fan.Yet, while...
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Fawlty reaction
Mary Evans' "Heartbreak hotels" (Opinion, 24 May) served little purpose. The appropriate reaction to the lamentable "service" she described was: first, complain to the hotel manager face to face and...
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Stop digging
Helen Sword's book Stylish Academic Writing has an interesting title. Could you publish a review of the contents? ("Prose to die for, by the Spade-ful", Books, 3 May).Martyn Thomas, London
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Ian Oswald, 1929-2012
One of the world's leading experts on sleep has died.Ian Oswald was born in London on 4 August 1929. He was educated in the capital and at the Herbert Strutt grammar school in Belper, Derbyshire -...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of East LondonDresses to impressBudding fashion designers presented their work to the Queen during a stop on her Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK. Mikaela Cephinis, a foundation textiles and...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
? Sharp-eyed readers who wondered why, in our 17 May issue, we reported that only one of two academics at Queen Mary, University of London who wrote a critical letter to The Lancet had apparently...
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From Where I Sit - Female role model
"We enjoy your classes," my seminar students said to me, "because you're not a real teacher." When I asked what they meant, they told me about the "real" classes of certain, named male teachers. "...
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Odds and quads
These images are taken from the Bowen Collection, now held by the University of Bath, which was assembled as part of the research for a book on the origins and history of judo in the UK.
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Appointments
Liverpool Hope UniversityFrank Cottrell BoyceThe newly appointed professor of reading and communication at Liverpool Hope University joked that his first thought when he was offered the job was: "...
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Leader: The best that money can't buy
The market has its limits. Whether it is good or bad depends on context, and all must be alert to ideological creep in the academy
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Research Intelligence - For all their sakes, and science's too
Response to EU law will spur the UK's leading role in reducing animal testing. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Zero-sum game
The government’s ruthless, distorted idea of ‘competition’ will impoverish the whole academy and everyone in it. Thomas Docherty muses on a prescient 40-year-old speech warning of the trap at the end...
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Prometheus
Three decades after confronting our anxieties about reproduction in Alien, Sir Ridley Scott returns to the universe of his classic sci-fi horror film. Davina Quinlivan considers the franchise and...