Social Science Space

The #MeToo movement has slowly spread across to other sectors as people begin to come forward with their own stories of sexual harassment and bullying. In academic publishing, this conversation was in part started in February by Alison’s Mudditt’s powerful post on The Scholarly Kitchen. Muddit chaired a recent panel looking at sexual harassment, and ways to combat it, at the annual ALPSP conference.

Professor Shamit Saggar of the University of Essex discusses the back story of the South East Network for Social Sciences and how it intends to training doctoral students amid a background of rapidly evolving social science.