Author: Robert Dingwall

Robert Dingwall is an emeritus professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He also serves as a consulting sociologist, providing research and advisory services particularly in relation to organizational strategy, public engagement and knowledge transfer. He is co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Research Management.

Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?
News
June 22, 2013

Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?

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Groped at Luton Airport: Accountability and the Security State
Featured
May 26, 2013

Groped at Luton Airport: Accountability and the Security State

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The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity
International Debate
April 16, 2013

The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

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Modernizing Universities?
Higher Education Reform
April 8, 2013

Modernizing Universities?

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Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?

Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?

There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?

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Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

This is not a body of work that instructs us what to think – it invites us to ask the question that an ethnographer would ask: confronted with this scene, what is going on here?

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OA and the Man from Del Monte…

OA and the Man from Del Monte…

Older readers may recall a series of advertisements on UK TV in the 1980s, featuring the Man from Del Monte. The international […]

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Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes

Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes

The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.

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Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis

Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis

Much of the debate on Open Access has concentrated on the shift from a subscription model that opens access for authors, while […]

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Why Open Access will Stifle Innovation

Why Open Access will Stifle Innovation

It is curious that the UK government department promoting Business, Innovation and Skills should be so committed to a policy that might almost be designed to achieve the opposite effect.

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Open Access or Legalized Piracy? Open Access and the Finch Report

Open Access or Legalized Piracy? Open Access and the Finch Report

It seems we are to get Open Access in the UK whether we like it or not. It is, though, interesting to note how cavalier some people are about others’ intellectual property rights.

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Open Access – but not for authors

Open Access – but not for authors

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

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