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“I became a scholar in order to become a better activist”

By SAGE | Published: June 17, 2013

A conversation with Dr. Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and University Professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Engagement | Tagged A Different View of Urban Schools, academia, Activism, communitism, education, inequality, Kitty Kelly Epstein, Mallory Whiteduck, Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award, Oakland, race, scholarship, schools, teaching | Leave a comment

The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 29, 2013

The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.

Also posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged American Academy of Political and Social Science, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Douglas S.Massey, employment, inequality, labor, Moynihan, political science, Poverty, race, social science, sociology, William Julius Wilson | 1 Comment

Can Brands be Intellectuals?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 27, 2013

As an academic, you are a brand not only as a matter of choice, but, increasingly, due to powerful institutional imperatives that are becoming harder and harder to ignore.

Also posted in Academic Funding, Early Career, Featured, Higher Education Reform | Tagged academia, Academic Jobs, Branding, bureaucratization, C.Write Mills, careers, competition, Early Career Researchers, intellectuals, jobs, research, social networking, social science, The Sociological Imagination, Twitter | 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, Featured, Higher Education Reform | Tagged academic branding, Branding, Corporatization, doctorates, individualization, labor, labour, REF, reform, social science, sociology | 1 Comment

Congressional Briefing on social surveys and statistics (American Academy of Political and Social Science)

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 7, 2013

Last month The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) put together a Congressional Briefing on the impact of falling response rates to social surveys and what can be done about it.

Also posted in Academic Funding, International Debate, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged business, policy, statistics, Surveys | 1 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, Featured, Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research Methods | Tagged data, Digital Data, Federal Funding, Funding, quantitative research, social science, statistics, Surveys | 4 Comments

Stand Out and Be Counted: Quantitative Skills and Social Scientists

By British Academy | Published: May 2, 2013

The British Academy recently published a guide for students encouraging those studying the humanities and social sciences to become statistically savvy.

Also posted in Early Career, Higher Education Reform, Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Policy, Research Methods | Tagged business, ESRC, HEFCE, journalism, Politics, public sector, Quantitative skills, social science, statistics, The British Academy | 1 Comment

Using Quantitative Skills in Journalism

By British Academy | Published: May 1, 2013

Quantitative Skills can give you an edge and enable you to source stories from within data sets and critically engage with ‘evidence’ from politicians! Find out more from the Guardian DataBlog Editor and a BBC Business Reporter.

Also posted in Early Career, Research Methods | Tagged Anthony Reuben, BBC, Datablog, journalism, PhD skills, quantitative research, Simon Rogers, statistics | 1 Comment

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 Featured, 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

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