Wellcome Trust to boost early career funding
Trust director Jeremy Farrar says more fellowships and seed grants will address pinch points

Trust director Jeremy Farrar says more fellowships and seed grants will address pinch points

More study divided between college and university could be on the horizon, expert says

Peter Mandler, Royal Historical Society president, to speak on post-war ‘escalator’ in university access

A planned Cardiff Innovation System built on regenerated Cathays site will bring ideas together to create, innovate and translate

Jon Marcus reports from Cleveland, Mississippi on an institution pinning hopes on a musical heritage

David Flanagan’s email to 43 academics said that those who felt unable to support the institution’s ‘vision’ should leave

Jim O’Neill on how institutions outside London can do more to retain graduates and create jobs with government help

A surprising graduation talk on climate change causes Sally Feldman to question her biases

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Philip Clarke asks whether ecological issues can be solved by studying aboriginal knowledge

Clare Brant on a form of writing that offers a unique insight into the private lives of women

Martin Cohen on a brief but powerful look at the history of avarice in society and what can be done to temper its more extreme elements

A petite primer with grand ambitions excels in its secondary themes, says Michelle Baddeley

Tim Hall on a travelogue, covering 12 locations, with an abundance of ecological and cultural insights

Vladimir Tismaneanu lauds a posthumous and provocative work that reflects on the past but also on the current European predicament