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Social science

Academic fraud in Britain is endemic, but universities continue to argue the case for self-regulation. America and Denmark have tougher regimes in place, so should we follow their lead? asks Tariq Tahir

28 August

Twenty years ago, Paul Kennedy provoked intense debate with his claims about the decline of US power. Huw Richards meets a man still unafraid of tackling the grand strategies of empire and war

28 August

It's time to start exchanging gifts and sharing cultures with the digital natives who are our students, says Fintan Culwin

21 August

Gerard Kelly, a former president of lecturers' trade union Natfhe, died of liver failure on 2 August at the age of 40.

14 August

A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise. Terence Kealey reveals how hypocrisy, violence and torture in the America of George Washington have helped create the US of George Bush

14 August

Ninety years after the suffragettes' first victory, June Purvis reflects on wars still being fought on behalf of women's rights

7 August

The Olympics and sport in general give countries a way to engage with the world, says Grant Jarvie, a sports studies expert

7 August

Joseph S. Nye is part of a long line of US academics who have helped shape foreign policy. A former Clinton adviser, now in the Obama camp, he tells Huw Richards how America can restore its tattered reputation in the world

7 August