What are you reading? – 28 July 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert H. Frank
An economist explains to the rich that they didn’t build that, Danny Dorling writes
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My Grandmother’s Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry, by Craig Raine
David Gewanter on a poet’s turning his telltale gaze to works of verse and makers of muddled readings and purveyors of ‘balonium’
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Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel, by Dov Waxman
Projecting their hopes and fears on to Israel has polarised Jews in the US, says William Kolbrener
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The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves, by Charles Fernyhough
Janet Sayers on what inner speech can tell us about our brain processes
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New and noteworthy – 28 July 2016
Timely titles for consideration take in upright citizens, fly-by-wire ethics, a world of troubling numbers and home round the range
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Mental health research ‘being short-changed’, academics claim
The grouping of subjects such as neuroscience and psychiatry with cheaper disciplines will lead to what critics say is a failure to fairly fund mental health research
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Giulio Regeni: the promising young scholar as his friends and tutors remember him
Six months after the PhD student’s murder in Egypt, John Elmes looks at the case and talks to those who were close to the promising young scholar
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The robots are coming for the professionals
Do universities need to rethink what they do and how they do it now that artificial intelligence is beginning to take over graduate-level roles?
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The week in higher education – 28 July 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Could ‘free movement for scientists’ preserve EU funding access?
Idea is mooted at EuroScience Open Forum but event is also warned that privileging researchers could be seen as ‘elitist’
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HE reforms: lessons from China and South Africa
Jo Beall assesses how recent changes to higher education and research compare with countries the UK could see as key trading partners post-Brexit
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Kenneth Baker: campuses ‘must allow exchange of ideas’
Former education secretary under Thatcher considers how his new work on book burning relates to current debate on censorship
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Academia too reliant on ‘accidental leadership development’
Few academic department heads receive any formal leadership training when they step up into middle management, a study says