The Latest Breaking News from Academics

The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color

Other lives: Microbiologist at Liverpool University who helped refugee academics find new homes and jobs

Academics draw on lived experience in their global peacebuilding work as they foster dialogue between opposing groups and look to give victims a voice

Forty academics write to home secretary over weekend’s ‘dangerous assault’ on the right to protest

Repurposing current drugs to tackle dementia is an ‘urgent priority’, academics say, but other experts warn more work is needed before they can be used to help treat the disease

The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance

Across the country, academics, journalists and researchers are mapping their state’s news and information ecosystems.

More than 2.1 million Canadians today work in temporary, part-time or otherwise unstable jobs. For these workers, the ideal of a “standard employment relationship” — the predominant model for employment for decades in the second half of the 20th century — no longer defines their employment experiences or expectations.

Imagine your community is facing a thorny, complex problem. Let’s consider two scenarios.