Matthew Reisz
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Past articles by Matthew:
GCHQ forms first research partnership with UK universities
New partnership with institutions in north-west should drive innovation and even recruitment → Read More
Abdulrazak Gurnah: I wanted to write and be an academic
Nobel literature laureate on his dual career, childhood memories and why decolonising the curriculum is nothing new → Read More
Covid a ‘kick up the backside’ on pedagogical strategy
Academics and estates teams must work together to drive through the linked changes in infrastructure and teaching → Read More
The Trick: can BBC ‘Climategate’ drama reset global warming debate?
Jason Watkins stars in show exploring human costs and political ramifications of hacking of emails from University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in 2009 → Read More
What are you reading? – October 2021
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers → Read More
Books interview: George Makari
The professor of psychiatry and author of Of Fear and Strangers discusses learning about America from Twain, the ‘history of xenophobia’ and how to address it → Read More
The ‘lost art’ of mischief-making academic indexes
Evolution of indexes closely tied to development of universities, says author, who outlines how they have been used for centuries to settle scholarly scores → Read More
The Chair: is Netflix show too painful for academics to watch?
Scholars offer a range of views on the popular and much-anticipated Netflix series → Read More
Boris Johnson: UK will do ‘whatever it can’ to host Afghan students
Concerns about the fate of those ‘at particular risk’ from the Taliban lead to apparent reversal of policy → Read More
Swimming club helps scholars fight rising tide of managerialism
Communal leisure activities can have a big impact on campus life, paper argues → Read More
Putting the social back into social media
We need to work against the grain of platforms that incentivise us to behave in unscholarly ways, argues author → Read More
Major gift bankrolls ‘second renaissance’ for Warburg Institute
Ambitious plans should enable research centre to apply its unique insights to ‘contemporary cultural, political and social understanding’ → Read More
Some universities ‘still too evasive’ on slavery ties
Institutions face tough choices and often fierce criticism in trying to make reparation for their tainted origins → Read More
Is the future of history writing in the first person?
With history books increasingly including first-person, ‘confessional’ elements, authors explain why they take this approach, while other historians reflect on the dangers → Read More
Books interview: Mark Jackson
The professor of the history of medicine and author of Broken Dreams on teenage angst, exploring medical pasts and getting to the heart of midlife crises → Read More
‘Continued urgent need’ to support displaced academics
Inspiring stories from alumni of the Scholar Rescue Fund reveal how they have enriched both host and home academic communities → Read More
Nobel laureates share the secrets of their success
Winners describe how gossip and gaudy colours, as well as a desire to relieve suffering, spurred their research → Read More
Morton Schapiro: campuses must address their own fundamentalism
Book sets out to challenge the simplistic and divisive thinking to be found in disciplines as diverse as economics and literary studies → Read More
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on making the ‘disordered cosmos’ add up
‘The first Black woman on the tenure track in theoretical cosmology’ tells Matthew Reisz about her struggles to reconcile a pristine childhood image of science with the reality she confronts by using selective citation to marginalise racist or sexist scientists → Read More
Universities in repressive states ‘hollow copies’
Education institutions are being undermined from within, everywhere from Turkey to Brazil, online conference hears → Read More