Guest editorial for the Ukraine special issue: ‘Tempus fugit, Academia sempiterna’

For many academics around the world, war is unimaginable. It happens to others, a brutal but distant reality that appears on our television screens, but not outside of our windows. For others, including (but not only) those in Ukraine, the reality of war is immediate, here and now, and yet, somehow, academic life persists. This very special issue of our journal came out of conversations with academic colleagues in Ukraine, who visited the University of Glasgow in August 2023 through an international collaboration grant.