Grant winners – 31 March 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Developing a culture of ‘mega-giving’ in Australian higher education
University fundraising in Australia needs to catch up with the UK, says Nick Blinco
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Interview with Tanya Krzywinska
We talk to the digital games professor about the perception of games in the academy
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A Life Beyond Boundaries, by Benedict Anderson
Book of the week: Joanna Lewis on nationalism’s truest friend and the books that made him a world authority
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Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain, by Elizabeth Yale
James Delbourgo on a study of how scientists shared information and how through it they constructed the nation as an object of study
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World insight: a homegrown academic workforce for the Gulf
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam considers the implications of ‘Emiratisation’ policies for higher education in the Middle East
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Books interview: Deirdre N. McCloskey
The economist and polymath on A. N. Wilson and Isaiah Berlin, mushy peas and sisterly libertarianism, and all those books as yet unread and unwritten
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150 Under 50 Rankings 2016: Focus on mission, not measurements
Rankings efforts must not detract from university mission, says?Hong Kong University of Science and Technology president Tony Chan
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Former Soas director Paul Webley dies
Professor Webley was ‘inspired leader’ and will be ‘sorely missed’, say colleagues of the acclaimed academic
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Postgraduate stem courses: top five sending countries to the UK
Saudi Arabia is the top country of origin for international postgraduate students on medicine and dentistry courses in the UK
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Coping with illness: sound minds, unsound bodies
Being sick threatens employability, legacy and self-image. Two recent victims of stroke and cancer tell their tales
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China 'offering global elite scholarships to boost soft power'
China, fostering links with future leaders through its universities,?is now playing the same game as Western nations, researcher says
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South Asian women ‘missing out on university leadership roles’
Women in higher education in South Asia are not being identified and prepared for leadership roles in universities, a new report suggests