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.

Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?
International Debate
February 3, 2013

Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

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OA and the Man from Del Monte…
News
December 16, 2012

OA and the Man from Del Monte…

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Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes
International Debate
November 20, 2012

Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes

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Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis
Communication
October 17, 2012

Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis

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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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Research Integrity in the UK – the Spawn of Satan?

Research Integrity in the UK – the Spawn of Satan?

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.

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Satan at work in the university…?

Satan at work in the university…?

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.

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Better Drowned than Duffers…?

Better Drowned than Duffers…?

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.

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Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University

Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University

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…

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Polar Bears and the Ethics of Representation

Polar Bears and the Ethics of Representation

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

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