Governance | Leadership | Research

I recently had to create a job description but soon realised that the real task was not about defining individual roles but creating a coherent framework that explained what an academic career looks and how you progress from one level to the next. In this ...

Every scholarly article is published using a particular publishing model, but how do we know what model was used for a given article? This edition argues that a simple addition to both the article and its metadata would improve transparency and provide much richer analysis ...

Universities measure publications, citations, grants and rankings, yet they collect remarkably little information about one of the activities that makes scholarly publishing possible: peer review. Every year, academics devote many hours to reviewing manuscripts, but the scale, distribution and value of this activity remains largely ...

University leaders do not need to be AI experts, but they need an understanding to make informed decisions in an environment that is rapidly changing. This article explores ten areas that every university leader should understand as AI becomes an increasingly important part of higher ...

Workload models are designed to create fairness and transparency, yet they remain one of the most debated aspects of university life. From disciplinary differences to invisible labour and competing views of what constitutes academic work, creating a system that everyone believes is fair may be ...

Many universities are facing financial pressures, which are likely to get worse before they get better. Rising costs and uncertainty around student recruitment are forcing leaders to make difficult decisions. Yet financial sustainability is about more than reducing expenditure. It is about ensuring that resources ...