Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Narnia? They’re all about academia
And Lord of the Rings is about being a PhD student, explains Jeremy Singer
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A cliff is no place to start
Building an academic career is hard, but high initial hurdles and a lack of clear progression paths make it unnecessarily daunting
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Instant results: a brainstorming success story
Andrew Palmer on using the thinktank approach to solve problems that conventional research could take years to answer
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Lego at Cambridge is much more than child’s play
Acting director of new research centre set up with Lego Foundation money says aim will be to explore whether there really is evidence that play enhances education
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Fish out of water: expatriate academics tell all
From accent intolerance to ‘bamboo ceilings’, Jack Grove examines the challenges of working in a university overseas
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In praise of PowerPoint
Philip Moriarty stands up for the much-maligned presentation tool
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Marketisation 'is wrecking teaching and research'
An open letter sounding the alarm hit a nerve among academics – it’s time for managers to listen, argues Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.
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Peer reviewing: a good deed and a good career move, too
Early career scholars will help themselves as well as others by assessing papers, abstracts, grant proposals and book chapters. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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The Francis Crick Institute: science and serendipity
Is the biomedical research facility dubbed ‘Sir Paul’s cathedral’ built on sound foundations?
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The brain trust, promoted to high office
Scholars imagine a government formed of academics
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Making time for Plan B (2 of 2)
While it is true that many PhD students and early career postdocs don't have a Plan B, and equally true that academic institutions can profit from their unrealised aspirations, not all universities...
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TeachHigher, wages lower? Beware the outsourcers’ razor
Benjamin Poore calls on universities to reject plans likely to make hourly paid lecturers’ lot poorer and more precarious
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Advancement rests on research record
You report that a black philosopher claims that he was rejected for a full-time job because his proposed black studies course was too challenging to white-dominated academia (“New MA ‘too critical of...
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Make sense of science
The Royal Society has recently published guidance on the career expectations of doctoral students in the sciences (“Dispel illusion of PhDs leading to jobs for life, says Royal Society”, News, 18/25...
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What it’s like to work with the academic greats
Five contributors recall friendships and encounters with preeminent scientists, writers and philosophers