Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Preserving Academic Freedom When Tenure Is Tenuous
Cathy Sandeen, chancellor of University of Wisconsin Colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension, argues that universities need to be more honest on how academic freedom applies to different teaching roles in an environment where tenure is no longer a given.
Stories of Research to Reality: Jim Knight
Learning coach explains the “complexity of teaching” in his installment of a series detailing the contributions social science makes in everyday lives.
Death to PowerPoint (And Why It Will Live)
If universities were interested in measuring learning, argues Paul Ralph, it’s likely the bulb in the PowerPoint projector would dim a bit.
ESRC Recognizes Researchers Who Make a Difference
A professor of politics who reached millions with his and his team’s analysis of the Scottish independence referendum, a psychologist who helped […]
Book Review: The Relevance of Political Science
A new collection engages directly with how political science can achieve wider relevance as a discipline. Matt Wood finds ‘The Relevance of Political Science’ a must read for any scholar interested in the impact debate and he welcomes a return to the more social constructivist ideas of impact through teaching and learning.
Let’s Un-Invite the Idea of Disinvitations
When people with well-known, if controversial, ideas are disinvited from speaking engagements just because those known views bother some people who know how to send email or to tweet, something is very wrong, argues Russell Blackford.
Open Letter on Innovation Urges Real Support for Basic Research
More than 250 universities and scholarly groups and the CEOs of 10 corporations have released an open letter urging American policymakers to “heed the warnings” about the nation’s waning commitment to basic research.
Social Science in the News
Cutting social science funding stalls future innovation The Hill (blog) Gutting funding for social and behavioral science research in favor of other […]
