Universities must shift from treating mental illness to promoting mental health
We must create spaces, resources and communities where individuals and groups can achieve optimal health through everyday activities, says Alan Cromlish
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Reporting on death experts
Matthew Reisz considers the fascinating, painful and plain bizarre topics addressed by researchers exploring one of the last taboos
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Yes, branch campuses are still worth it
Branch campuses and joint degree programmes give students and staff unique opportunities that they wouldn’t otherwise have, says Vincenzo Raimo
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To set ethical standards, Europe needs to lead on innovation
Horizon Europe planners must remember that research into ethics and societal needs will only be effective if Europe has world-leading technological capacity, writes Jan PalmowskiÂ
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Alaska president seeks cuts ‘glide path’, not ‘crash landing’
While fighting huge state funding cut, James Johnsen concedes overcapacity and low interest
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Nobelist: work-life balance impossible for scholars in short term
Wolfgang Ketterle says scientists should aim instead for equilibrium in the longer term, and always keep other interests or hobbies
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Scientists quit Nobel-winning project over authorship dispute
Founder of Ligo project reveals some researchers have left over a lack of recognition, exposing wider attribution difficulties for large teams
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Is the Nobel prize good for science?
David Matthews asks if elevating individuals to near-deity status undermines modern science’s purpose of deposing authority figures such as priests and popes
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King’s sorry for blocking students from campus during royal visit
Independent review finds college's actions breached data protection law, as well as going against its own values
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What are you reading? – 4 July 2019
Our weekly glance over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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English regulator issues first refusal on provider loan access
OfS rules that Bloomsbury Institute Limited cannot be included on register of providers because of quality and governance concerns
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Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay, by J.J. Murphy
Lucy Bolton reflects on the links between the action on screen and real life in American independent cinema
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A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and Their Poetry, by Sam Illingworth
Tom McLeish delves into the complex relations between scientific and poetic creativity
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Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulos
Sharon Wheeler celebrates the core journalistic skills that changing technology are unlikely to render obsolete
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Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket, by Fraser MacDonald
Commies, wizards, women…Alice Gorman is delighted by an account that overturns most of what we thought we knew about the early US space effort