16 January 2020 digital edition
Taking one for the team: The personal cost of defending science
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Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage, by Katja Pilhuj
Lisa Hopkins enjoys an ingenious analysis of the ways that ‘discourses of mapping’ influenced attitudes to gender
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Women, Writing, and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100, by Diane Watt
Hetta Howes is impressed by a bold attempt to recover the words of long-forgotten women
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We need backup now
Brave researchers who challenge powerful interests and angry activists cannot be left to fight alone: colleagues and institutions must support them
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What are you reading? – 16 January 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersÂ
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Rise in firsts awarded by UK universities stalls at last
Figures mark end of trend that has seen the share of students gaining the top degree class double since 2009-10
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future, by Alice Gorman
Cait MacPhee enjoys an Antipodean analysis of the ‘heritage’ generated by space travel
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Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, by Sarah Cole
Charlotte Jones enjoys an account of a hugely ambitious writer who challenges many of our assumptions about studying literatureÂ
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Interview with Muzlifah Haniffa
The Foulkes Foundation Medal-winning immunologist on open science, adjusting to the UK climate and why women scientists still face bias
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Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires, by Julie Peakman
Book of the week: there’s something for everyone in this provocative study of sex, power and conflict, says Joanna Lewis
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Breaking the silence about the menopause
Like the rest of society, universities have largely failed to consider the specific needs of menopausal women. Here, one scholar describes how this can lead to marginalisation and bullying – and why...
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The only way is up: are towers the future for city campuses?
IE University in Madrid wanted to grow so, in a crowded city, it decided to build upwards
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Sallie McFague, 1933-2019
Tributes paid to a pioneering scholar who helped ‘push the boundaries of how we think and feel theologically to address the needs of the world’
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Germany mulls extra research funding for committee-burdened women
Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression
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Social sciences miss out on climate change research funding
Just 5 per cent of funding over past two decades went on studies examining how to change human behaviour to help tackle crisis, researchers find