All the stories from research and academia you may have missed since the last 8am Playbook
Students and lecturers across the UK are in their final week (or so) of pre-term preparation, which means the 8am Playbook is getting ready to wake from its month-long slumber, ahead of its official return on 4 September.
Our regular Sunday Reading column returns on 4 September, with the first Ivory Tower of the year hitting your inboxes the following Friday (9 September). We are sure you are just as excited as we are at the prospect of another academic year.