Social Science Space

Open Access to academic journal papers is a hot button issue. The UK government is in favour, along with major […]

A document drops into my inbox that purports to be a draft Concordat between the major UK funders and university managements on research integrity – a publication that has already been set for July 2012, but someone belatedly thought that it might be a good idea to get disciplinary associations on board.

How an unholy alliance of arrogant scientists and self-interested federal bureaucrats came to widen the net of ethical regulation intended to deal with abuses in medical research to empirical investigation in the humanities and social sciences.

Last Saturday, I went to the theatre to a see a touring production based on Arthur Ransome’s novel, Swallows and Amazons…. it prompted a number of thoughts about risk and risk management in the contemporary world.

UK newspapers have belatedly picked up on a troubling precedent that is crystallizing in the US courts. Boston College has been ordered to disclose recordings from an archive of interviews with former IRA members to the Police Service of Northern Ireland…

There was a stir in some sections of the UK media just before Christmas when it was revealed that a […]

This summer, I have been reading one of the most impressive ethnographies that I have seen for a long time: […]

A busy summer means the blog can be overtaken by events. I had intended to write on 11 July about […]

I was going to write about last week’s decision by the UK Information Commissioner to force the University of East […]

I was rather saddened last week by the comment from a Pakistani colleague who wanted to know how to set […]

GAfREC, the guidance document for UK NHS RECs, has just been updated. Until now all research within the NHS has […]

Thanks for the comments on the first post.  I am sorry there has been a bit of a hiccup with […]