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 […]
Is Self-Plagiarism a Scourge of the Academy?
Here’s an ethical question or two — is it OK to re-use your own words in a new written piece, or is there an expectation of “exclusivity of the written word for each publication”? Drexel’s Jamie L. Callahan examines the moral panic surrounding self-plagiarism.
CVS Extinguishes Tobacco Sales: An Academic Review
A roundup of social science research that shines a light on a major American retailer’s decision to stop selling tobacco products from its stores.
Why is the Study of Social Science So Critical to Our Future?
Engineer Jeff Patmore, former Head of Strategic University Research & Collaboration at British Telecom, explains why in the lead-up to the January 29 launch event for the “Impact of Social Sciences: How Academics and their Research Make a Difference,” published by SAGE.
How Social Sciences are Converging with STEM
Much less is known about the development of the social sciences as a complete discipline group than about the science, technology, engineering and mathematics discipline group. Patrick Dunleavy, Simon Bastow and Jane Tinkler set out some key findings from their new book, “The Impacts of the Social Sciences,” identifying five key trends that are causing the old social sciences versus physical science divide to dissolve.
Social Sciences Worth an Estimated £24 Billion to UK Economy
This post originally appeared on the London School of Economis (LSE) Media page here. It is kindly reposted with their permission. Social science […]
How is Systems Science Used in Public Health?
On December 4, 2013, Society for Public Health Education, National Institutes for Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and SAGE […]
Hard Evidence: Is Open Access Working?
The below post was originally published on The Conversation, and is kindly reposted here with their permission. Author – Ernesto Priego, Lecturer […]
Europe slides in Times Higher Education rankings
Some of the top institutions in Europe have dropped down the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2013. The UK and US continue to dominate while leaders in France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, Ireland and Austria have seen their stars fade. The results are likely to spur on advocates of a scheme to produce a measurement of university excellence that better reflects the strengths of universities outside the US and UK.
Taking the top spot in the THE rankings for the third year in a row is the California Institute of Technology. Oxford has also maintained its position in joint second place but in a tussle between the East and West coasts of the US, Harvard has pushed Stanford into fourth place, having regained its position next to Oxford at number two.
