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Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 16, 2013

SAGE’s Global Publishing Director, Ziyad Marar talks with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about the one year anniversary of Social Science Bites.

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, Public Engagement | Tagged Daniel Kahneman, David Edmonds, Interview, Nigel Warburton, podcast, social science, Social Science Bites, Steven Pinker, Ziyad Marar | Leave a comment

The Myth of Academic Stardom

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 14, 2013

The recent and on-going reforms of higher education are enforcing an individualisation of academic labour. That academics would gamely play along with such a system is astonishing.

Also posted in Early Career, Higher Education Reform, Impact | Tagged academic branding, Branding, Corporatization, doctorates, individualization, labor, labour, REF, reform, social science, sociology | Leave a comment

Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 5, 2013

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.

Also posted in Academic Funding, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research Methods | Tagged data, Digital Data, Federal Funding, Funding, quantitative research, social science, statistics, Surveys | 2 Comments

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged BCS/CSEW, British Crime Survey, crime, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Danny Dorling, financial crisis, inequality, Interpersonal violence, Police, Poverty, Property, recession | Leave a comment

Accountability, Compliance and Bureaucratisation in Higher Education

By Ferdinand von Prondzynski | Published: April 26, 2013

Around the educational mission we are now spinning a web of ‘accountability’ that has little to do with explaining or justifying our activities, and much to do with obscuring our responsibility through the creation of elaborate processes.

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News | Tagged Academic Job, Academic job seeking, accountability, bureaucratization, Dublin City University, ociety of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, risk management, university | 1 Comment

Signs of the Times

By Daniel Nehring | Published: April 24, 2013

Tom Wolfe, Miami, and the shallowness of our image-driven modern life.

Also posted in International Debate | Tagged Book Review, celebrity culture, Image-obsessed, Literature, Reading, Superficiality, Tome Wolfe | Leave a comment

What Is the Value of Social Science?

By SAGE | Published: April 11, 2013

Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less

Also posted in Academic Funding, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Congress, Funding, NIH, NSF | 1 Comment

Working Outside of Academia does Not Mean I Sold Out!

By Sarah-Louise Quinnell | Published: April 2, 2013

I have argued repeatedly that Social Scientists have a lot to offer sectors outside of the Ivory Tower and it is time we stopped associating this with negative words like failure and selling out.

Also posted in Early Career, Public Engagement | Tagged alternative careers, early career, outside academia, rogue scholar | Leave a comment

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 27, 2013

The Ivory Tower has been toppled and academia has an impact in the ‘real world’. The problem is that this may have come at the expense of truly innovative and critical scholarship.

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Tagged Branding, British Sociological Association, BSA, education, Entreprenurial university, Ivory Tower, Matthew Goodwin, social science, sociology, The Guardian | 5 Comments

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