CfP für die gemeinsame Frühjahrstagung der Sektionen „Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung“ und „Sozi-ologische Theorie“ in der DGS, 12.-13.03.2026, Dortmund Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien

Explores issues and trends regarding the transformation of governance, Is written by scholars engaged in largest comparative studies of higher education

As part of the INTERSECT project it is our pleasure to invite you to a guest talk by Professor Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

EUA - European University Association

The announcement has been made on the same day Bangor University announced 200 job losses

EUA - European University Association

Newcastle University votes in favour of industrial action, joining Dundee and East Anglia in achieving successful ballots

Coventry University is facing an unprecedented jobs and debt crisis under the leadership of vice-chancellor John Latham. The institution is threatening to sack 300 staff and rehire some of them in its...

How can intersectionality reshape our understanding of well-being?At the recent “Intersectionality in Action: Transforming Well-being in Education & Business” event hosted by NYU SPS, leading research...

This article introduces the concept of “care obfuscation”, developed from interviews with 32 UK-based academic mothers about their experience of the transition to parenthood. Care obfuscation refers t...

The UK’s higher education system faces many challenges, of which the largest is student fees. Many proposals are circulating but none commands a consensus. The CDBU (Council for the Defence of British...

Securing the future of UK universities will be one of many major challenges for the Government next year.

The expression ‘student success’ has gained traction in the university sector and has been applied to various aspects of the higher education (HE) learning trajectory. Yet, ‘success’ is an amorphou...

We are not amused… (10 points to whoever identifies reference in the title.) I’ve given myself a challenge – summarise the mess that UK HE is in, in c.800 words. Here goes… Even to a casual o…

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control ou...

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

The disruptive potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools to academic labour is potentially vast. Yet as we argue herein, such tools also represent a continuation of the inequities inherent to academia’...

The university is also merging some of its schools following a drop in student numbers.

Donald Trump’s re-election has intensified discussions about the influence of Project 2025. If enacted, it marks a dramatic shift in the United Stat...