Social scientists who wish to drive policy should ‘think big’
Senior sector figures urge new cohort to engage, draw on large datasets, collaborate with science and tackle the era’s major questions. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Do you need an emotional well-being check?
Discussions and activities on University Mental Health Day
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Francesca Haig: fire forged
Since her debut novel sparked a bidding war, the lecturer in creative writing has been writing full-time. But, she tells Emma Rees, she does miss teaching
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Robert Eaglestone, Liz Gloyn, Sandra Leaton Gray, Dennis Hayes and Janet Sayers...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, by Seana Valentine Shiffrin
To ensure freedom and public trust, institutions must prioritise veracity, says Andrew Hadfield
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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, by Matthew Beaumont
Peter J. Smith on the literary giants who have drawn inspiration from their nocturnal perambulations
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Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East, by Lauren Ristvet
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the drama that formed and maintained Near Eastern civilisations
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Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education, by William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin
Ferdinand von Prondzynski ponders an exploration of how universities should be led and by whom
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The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment, by Dallas G. Denery II
Biancamaria Fontana finds out how the telling of fibs went from being a sin to a social skill
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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy, by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin
The authors’ case for a cosmology in crisis is infinitely plausible, finds Jon Turney
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The Roma: A Balkan Underclass, by Jelena Čvorović
Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik baulks at the questionable assertions in a polemic about traveller communities
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Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba, by Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick
Joanna Lewis on the assassination of the nation’s first democratically elected leader
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Anthropology’s A level does not deserve the axe
The AQA decision to end a promising trial of the subject does a disservice to students, the discipline and the UK, says Joy Hendry
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Genius is so last season
Deifying young fashion designers does them no favours and slights the many who make their work possible, says Sally Feldman
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Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane
Laurence Coupe relishes inspiring reflections on the natural world’s relationship with language