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The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 16, 2013

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

Posted in News, Public Policy, Research Ethics | Also tagged BBC, Craig Calhoun, Ethics, London School of Economics, LSE, Media, North Korea, Panorama, policy, Project Camelot, Social research, social science, social science research | 1 Comment

Please – Not a Heroic Impact Narrative

By Pat Thompson | Published: April 15, 2013

Recently I’ve seen a lot of hero/heroine narratives. They now seem to be popping up in research impact plans and claims about impact.

Posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Research Ethics | Also tagged evidence-based policy, Heroic narrative, impact, Pat THompson, policy, social science, welfare | Leave a comment

Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement

By Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson | Published: January 8, 2013

Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.

Posted in Featured, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, Research Ethics, Research Methods | Also tagged anthropology, Criminology, Ethnography, Incarceration, Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, Research Methods, Science of Boredom, social science, sociology, Youth, Youth Correction | 2 Comments

OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences

By Cameron Neylon | Published: January 4, 2013

The opportunity for H&SS to reach much wider audiences who appreciate the value of their work generally, and to reach those specific people who will make important use of it is enormous.

Posted in Featured, Impact, News, Open Access, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Academic Books, Academic Writing, Finch Report, Gold Route, Journals, OA, open access, Publishing, social science | 2 Comments

Big Data: Benefit to Society, or Drowning in a Data Deluge?

By SAGE | Published: November 12, 2012

With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.

Posted in Academic Funding, Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged #fakesandy, big data, British Academy, Data Interpretation, ESRC, Farida Vis, Festical of Social Science, Flickr research, GetStats, Harvey Goldstein, Office of National Statistics, Paul Woobey, Polly Toynbee, social science, statistics | 4 Comments

Rebel Manhood

By jasoneastman | Published: September 7, 2012

With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the great recession is accelerating the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has been decimating the economic well-being of all Americans for almost a generation.

Posted in Impact, News, Public Engagement, Reports, Research, Research Methods, Resources, Teaching | Also tagged Culture of Poverty, Declining Significance of Race, Ethnography, Great Society, Hegemonic Masculinity, Jason Eastman, race, Rock, social science, Southern Rock, southern rock revival, The Moynihan Repor, War on Poverty, William Julius Wilson, working class | 5 Comments

Made it!

By christianjarrett | Published: August 17, 2012

An uncanny number of psychology findings manage to scrape into statistical significance

Posted in Featured, International Debate, Research Ethics | Also tagged Psychology, Research ethics | 1 Comment

Open Access or Legalized Piracy? Open Access and the Finch Report

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 18, 2012

It seems we are to get Open Access in the UK whether we like it or not. It is, though, interesting to note how cavalier some people are about others’ intellectual property rights.

Posted in Communication, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Authors Licensing and Copyright Society, copywrite, eminent domain, Horizon Funding Programme, Intellectual Property Rights, open access, Publishing, The Finch Report, The Gold Route, Writers Guild | 2 Comments

What to Expect from Peer Review

By SAGE | Published: July 13, 2012

A New Beginner’s Guide from Sense About Science

Posted in Announcements, Early Career, Featured | Also tagged Peer Review, Publishing, Publishing guide, SAGE Publishing, scholarly articles, Sense about Science, social science | 1 Comment

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