Archives for October, 2014

Don’t Let A Snob Story Become a Sob Story
Higher Education Reform
October 17, 2014

Don’t Let A Snob Story Become a Sob Story

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Video: Sara Miller McCune and Daniel Kahneman Discuss Social and Behavioral Sciences
Business and Management INK
October 16, 2014

Video: Sara Miller McCune and Daniel Kahneman Discuss Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Do Students in Germany and England See University Differently?
Higher Education Reform
October 16, 2014

Do Students in Germany and England See University Differently?

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Tweet Nothings? Academic Freedom and Private Rants
Communication
October 15, 2014

Tweet Nothings? Academic Freedom and Private Rants

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Journal of Service Research Invites Research on Health Service

Journal of Service Research Invites Research on Health Service

 Journal of Service Research is now accepting research for the upcoming special section entitled “Health Service Research: A Multidisciplinary Perspective,” which will […]

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Tracking the Provenance of Corruption

Tracking the Provenance of Corruption

In an award-winning paper, political scientist Alberto Simpser looks at the persistence and mobility of corruption in an increasingly mobile world.

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What I’ve Got Against the Nobel in Economics

What I’ve Got Against the Nobel in Economics

This year’s winner of the not-quite Nobel Prize in economics once again demonstrates the triumph of the blackboard over the real world in what gets recognized — and that’s not good, argues David Spencer.

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Academy of Social Sciences Names 2014 Fellows

Academy of Social Sciences Names 2014 Fellows

Lord Richard Best, the longtime chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; David Willets, a Conservative Party MP and until July the minister of state for universities and science; and Loraine R R Gelsthorpe, the current president of the British Society for Criminology, are among 34 leading social science scholars and practitioners named as 2014 fellows to the Academy of Social Sciences today in London.

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How Germany Managed to Abolish University Tuition Fees

How Germany Managed to Abolish University Tuition Fees

If Germany has done it, why can’t we? That’s the question being asked by many students around the world in countries that charge tuition fees to university. Barbara Kehm explains how Germany reached this point, and whether it’s likely to stay there.

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Shake By All Means, But Social Science is Not Natural Science

Shake By All Means, But Social Science is Not Natural Science

Will Davies responds to the calls for a social science shake-up by questioning the status of the social sciences in 2014 as something other than mere understudies to the natural sciences. The shared terrain of the two, he argues, seems to rest on various acts of forgetting on the part of the social sciences, but no acts of learning on the part of the natural sciences.

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Connect With Human Resource Development Review!

Connect With Human Resource Development Review!

Ever wondered who’s behind the work at Human Resource Development Review (HRDR)? Or perhaps anticipate what will be in the next issue? Human […]

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Shaken and Stirred: Christakis on Re-ordering Social Science

Shaken and Stirred: Christakis on Re-ordering Social Science

With one foot firmly planted in natural science and one in social science, Yale’s Nicholas A. Christakis looks at the landscape of the latter and wonders why it’s changed so little in the past century. Is it time for a common-sense, and yet radical, reshuffling of the institutional frameworks that we tend to accept as permanent?

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