Institute of Musical Research starts life anew at Royal Holloway
The new-look IMR aims to support and showcase studies across the musical spectrum

The new-look IMR aims to support and showcase studies across the musical spectrum

A pioneering engineer known as ‘the father of aeroacoustics’ has died

Annual event continues to open up unexpected places and debates

Academics debate whether non-subject-specific exams could be used to measure ‘learning gain’ in English higher education

Study says that importance of survey results may lead to ‘overzealous promotion’ and encourage more generous responses

Gene Grossman says restrictions on globalising the academy are ‘hugely damaging’

Interim chief executive Douglas Blackstock warns teaching excellence framework will lack credibility without external assessment

Department’s 250,000 ‘credibility interviews’ in two years questioned after ‘unjustified’ refusals to students

A study of the predatory nature of markets holds up a mirror to the field, says Victoria Bateman

Joanna Williams on a study embracing technology and introducing a provocative concept of learning

Lucy Wooding on a work centred on relations with the Emerald Isle during the reign of Henry VII and Henry VIII

It’s communal, kinky, defiant – but whatever it is, don’t call it that, says Kalle Berggren

Tracey Warr on the middlemen and artists who decide what their works should be called

David Fowler on the influence of venues that at one stage were attracting 3 million visitors a night

Study recommends that universities use financial and market data to assess whether programmes are likely to succeed