Law professor will deliver talk on gender identity and sex next term after disruption forced abandonment of previous event.

‘Pronounced penalties’ for those early-career staff with children may explain why PhDs postpone becoming a parent, finds study.

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is delighted to announce that Professor Helen Margetts OBE FBA FAcSS has been appointed as Professor of Political Science and Public Policy in the Department of Government and Director of the Data Science Institute (DSI).

BBSRC invests £10 million in 21 new Fellows as part of its ongoing commitment to develop the next generation of independent research leaders across the UK.

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a routine part of how we work, academics face more than a choice – there is an emerging moral responsibility to understand AI’s capacities, limitations and implications for fairness.

Only 8 per cent of early career physicists would advise others to pursue career in UK research after downturn in postdoc funding, survey finds.

We use Key Stage 2 data for 2025 from the National Pupil Database (NPD). We include all 653,000 pupils at state-funded mainstream and special schools.

Five of the UK’s most promising early-career academics have been selected as this year’s New Generation Thinkers to help shape Radio 4 programming.

An Oxford University law professor has been forced to axe lectures after facing "intimidation" from trans activists.

As Chinese universities surge in the Times Higher World University Rankings, provoking prognostications of a ‘new world order in global dominance of higher education and research’ (Phil Baty speaking to the New York Times), the global challenge for universities in the UK and...