Having a colleague in the house is good to bounce ideas off of, but who will stay on top of the potty training? Theresa Mercer and Andrew Kythreotis share their experience of working from home during...
The coronavirus pandemic and the efforts being taken to tackle it could spark a wider reassessment of higher education’s vital role in society
Lisa Hopkins considers how Tudor princesses severely limited their food intake as a way of asserting their status
James Stevens Curl considers the elusive notion of ‘grace’ and how it impregnated the art of the Renaissance and beyond
David Wheeler learns the lessons of a charismatic university president’s success
Suzanne Franks on what the decline of traditional media means for our ability to hold power to account
As UK research laboratories close, research-intensive universities call for extra funds to cover cost of disruption to science
Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys an impassioned hymn to the vocation and insights of the physicist
Pandemic may tip some institutions ‘over the edge’ financially, but others may be able to capitalise on increasing numbers of people ‘at home with a lot of extra time on their hands’
Exclusion of non-nationals could close the door to vital expertise, governments warned
Our regular look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
UUK says students ‘should not lose out on opportunity to go to university’ after exams cancelled
Sexism, unthinking managerialism and toxic ‘them and us’ attitudes are still pervasive within UK universities, according to an anonymous academic who found the dissonances between her values, career...
Sex historian Kate Lister on her unusual sleeping habits, Victorian pornography and challenging the stigma of sex work
Tributes paid to ‘visionary researcher’ who won 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine