What are you reading? – 5 January 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, And Why It’s So Hard to Stop, by Anna Lembke MD
A study probes a silent global epidemic: addiction to prescription medication, says David Healy
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Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy, by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke
Book of the Week: lack of effective antitrust oversight leaves us at the mercy of digital platforms, says Julia Powles
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Limiting PhDs creates the wrong kind of elite
Fixing problems in the academic job market by reducing the number of PhDs would homogenise the sector, argues Tom Cutterham
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The university as ‘critic and conscience’ of society
The Higher Education and Research Bill is a chance for institutions to show they do more than research and teaching, says Graham Virgo
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Laurie Taylor – 5 January 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Premier pro: 10 tips for university leaders
From respect and metrics to mistakes and biscuits, management scholar John Hendry offers advice
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Everything looks better through new year goggles
Virtual reality may be set to make an impact on learning, but can it reveal who will keep their resolutions?
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For what you are about to receive, you’re welcome
Mark Readman thoughtfully provided an 11-point guide to help selfish academics ensure that they stand out at a conference (“How to act like a superstar scholar”, Opinion, 15 December). But might I...
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Caution: heavy load
The findings reported in the article “Even top teachers ‘not recognised or compensated’, warns research” (News, 22 December) – that top teachers at research-intensive universities don’t see their...
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Repaid to Scotland
The negative picture of Scottish higher education painted in the feature “Can Scotland carry on with its free-tuition policy?” (15 December) is simply unrecognisable. Free tuition has been a...
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A social solution
Sometimes the solution to our problems is just staring us in the face. Helen Lees’ article “The media are the gatekeepers of impact, and they are doing a bad job” (Opinion, 13 November) is a case in...
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Out of the picture
I read with interest your article “Male scientists ‘outnumber women 3:1’ in school textbooks” (News, 8 December). This issue is also relevant to the study of the arts, an issue that my PhD has...
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Grant winners – 5 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding