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Accountability, Compliance and Bureaucratisation in Higher Education
pakorn I recently attended a workshop in which a government official – not from Scotland – offered some comments on ‘the new world of higher education’. So what do you think we heard about? Pedagogy?...
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Property Crime, Violence and Recession
Previously I posted an analysis of trends in police data over the past decade, as part of an argument that talk of ‘overall crime’ was best left to crime involving overalls. I concluded by arguing...
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Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public
Federal surveys have been getting more expensive to administer, in part because the number of people who actually respond to surveys has been progressively declining. As a result, researchers are...
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The Myth of Academic Stardom
Idea go For brands to work as brands, it must be possible to rank them. Blackberry’s smart phones are out, Samsung’s smart phones are in. Burger King sells bigger burgers than McDonald’s. And so on....
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Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!
SAGE’s Global Publishing Director, Ziyad Marar talks with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about the one year anniversary of Social Science Bites. SAGE is committed to supporting the core work that...
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Groped at Luton Airport: Accountability and the Security State
OK, it was my own fault for forgetting that I was still wearing my belt and triggering the detection gate. What followed, however, was easily the most intrusive search that I have experienced in...
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Can Brands be Intellectuals?
by twobee As an academic, you are a brand. This may suit your career plans and the way you do your work every day. Maybe you really enjoy all the networking, twittering, linking-in, and polishing of...
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The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration when he wrote what was to be a confidential report titled The Negro Family: the Case for National...
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UK backs Social Science, the World benefits
The Coalition government is “very comfortable with the case for the social sciences,” and would maintain its broad base, David Willetts MP, the minister for Universities and Science, has said. “It...
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Universities for the Post-Democratic Age
Sura Nualpradid Let’s begin with the scandal of the month. Over the last few weeks, various major newspapers have disclosed secret documents that shed light on the truly astounding scale of online...
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Attacks on US Funding of Social Science Will Continue to Intensify
In the wake of the restrictions placed on US political science funding, Jeanne Zaino examines the extent to which social scientists should be concerned on future eligibility of funding. More recent...
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Why Social Science Education is as Important as STEM…
Many of us have noticed the recurrent attacks on social science funding by members of the US Congress. There is something paradoxical about the way in which representatives of political parties that...
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Social Sciences Need a Collective Voice
Free images from ponsulak Originally Published at The Guardian Higher Education Network on September 19th, 2013 Last week saw the launch of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology’s...
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Sociology Outside Academia
pakorn How will current threats to academic freedom shape the future of British sociology? That there are serious threats to academic freedom seems hard to deny, unless one’s understanding of academic...
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Introducing Grace Conyers
We are thrilled to introduce to you a new blogger to the Social Science Space blogging team, Grace Conyers. We found Grace after she had written a piece about the political science budget of the...
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Political science budget cut from NSF, scientists speak up
Author’s note: I did this interview and originally published it in the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Member Central blog. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has cancelled...
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I was not surprised to read of Boris Johnson’s recent comments about IQs and the importance of greed. In a very frank manner, they document the prevalent spirit of the times and the mind-set that has...
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A Postdoc’s Lament: Creativity and Innovation in Academic Sphere
Creativity lies at the core of academic labor. The motivation to engage in creative scholarship is arguably central to the work of most academics. Other motivations — e.g. the pursuit of prestige,...
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Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal
Last week, the UK media, both traditional and social, were full of claims that the government had wasted over £500 million of public funds on stockpiling Tamiflu (oseltamivir), an anti-viral drug used...
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Academic Excellence and Other Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Even after a considerable number of years, one of the most puzzling aspects of academic life for me still is the enormous disparity of feelings and modes of experience it offers to individual...
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