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Winter reads: scholars and senior sector figures share the books that have made the greatest impact on them over the past year, and the ones they are most looking forward to reading

Sir David Eastwood earns £90,000 as USS chair, while Dame Glynis Breakwell gets £50,000

Leading expert in cosmic rays remembered

The award-winning historian talks about research in an Eastern Siberian prison, making sense of the world through stories and why Angela Merkel is admirable

Fears that uncertainty over UK’s future in EU research framework has led to drop of half a billion euros in coordinated projects

Leeds Beckett University researchers are to publish a book exploring how the unheralded British actor became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars

Winter reads: scholars and senior sector figures share the books that have made the greatest impact on them over the past year, and the ones they are most looking forward to reading

Range of initiatives designed to help women unveiled

Westminster course brings serving prisoners together with students

Interventions such as women-only fellowships have improved gender balance – but some professoriates are still more than 85 per cent male

Jack Chappell launched distributed denial of service attack against Janet service

Scholar who lives in Germany and works in UK blames Brexit after waiting months for certificate