What are you reading? – 30 January 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future, by Paul Krugman
Book of the week: Victoria Bateman is impressed by the clear and wide-ranging insights of a Nobel-winning economist and public intellectual
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As Brexit day dawns, is it time to leave differences aside?
Letting go of acrimony is not easy after three years of trench warfare. But post-Brexit Britain needs academics and their evidence-led approach
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More Examples, Less Theory: Historical Studies of Writing Psychology, by Michael Billig
Michael Marinetto learns some crucial lessons about good writing and researchÂ
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Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity, by David S. Richeson
Robin Wilson enjoys a lively account of how we learned that we’ll never be able to square the circle or meet a number of other challenges posed by the ancient Greeks
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Does it matter if more and more students are getting firsts?
Lincoln Allison looks back to an age of tougher marking and considers what, if anything, we need to do about the historically inevitable slide towards grade inflation
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‘Tide turning’ on use of ‘conditional unconditional’ offers
But data for 2019 show use of ‘conditional unconditional’ offers still high at some universities
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University of Surrey sponsored supplement digital edition
Produced by THE and the University of Surrey. Paid for by the University of Surrey.
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What can be done to resolve academic authorship disputes?
With careers riding on young scientists’ position in author lists, friction is all too common. A snowballing initiative to list authors’ contributions aims to make sure credit is always given where...
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Interview with Kate McMillan
The artist and King’s College London fellow discusses the relationship between research and art, and how climate change is reshaping her work
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Barbara Wright, 1935-2019
Tributes paid to Irish expert on French literature who ‘recognised languages as a key to future opportunities in Europe’
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You keep the royalties on IP, Sydney institution tells companies
‘Commercial entanglements’ a deadweight on prosperity, ߣߣÊÓƵn university insists
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US biologists ‘biased’ against evangelical students, says study
Researchers say that conservative Christian beliefs do not necessarily conflict with belief in concepts such as evolution
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The week in higher education – 30 January 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media