Knee Socks and Libraries: The Sexualisation of Educated Women

September 10, 2015

The academic year is about to start in earnest, and along with all the lecture schedules, seminar timetables and module …

Objectifying Better: Body Image in Schools

March 18, 2015

“Schoolboys should tell girls their idea of a perfect woman” is the extraordinary idea being put forward by an “expert” …

February 28, 2015

“The Guardian View on Higher Education” sounds like the title of a particularly biting satire on a certain sort of …

January 23, 2015

Opinions are a curious commodity. Everyone has the right to their own, and we are told that everyone’s is of …

October 21, 2013

“Is knowing about the subject basically an eccentric side effect of a university degree?” A discussion about lectures and presentations …

March 29, 2013

What is it that people just don’t get about your field? I’m interested in hearing about the single thing that …