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.

Zika – What Are the Real Lessons from Ebola?
International Debate
February 1, 2016

Zika – What Are the Real Lessons from Ebola?

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Common Rule Revision – The Ethics Police Fight Back
International Debate
December 17, 2015

Common Rule Revision – The Ethics Police Fight Back

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Deregulating Social Science Research Ethics – Clipping the Wings of IRBs?
International Debate
November 5, 2015

Deregulating Social Science Research Ethics – Clipping the Wings of IRBs?

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Suffragette – More than a Feminist Movie
International Debate
October 26, 2015

Suffragette – More than a Feminist Movie

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Malaria Vaccine – Great Science But What’s the Point?

Malaria Vaccine – Great Science But What’s the Point?

Bully for the researchers who have developed a vaccine can build resistance against some instances of malaria, says Robert Dingwall. But before the WHO recommends for its adoption, he suggests a harder look at user-centered design and cost-benefit analysis may be in order.

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Ebola: WHO and the Consequences of Ignoring Social Science

Ebola: WHO and the Consequences of Ignoring Social Science

A new report from the World Health Organization on the response to the African Ebola outbreak backs up what our Robert Dingwall has been writing all along — by downplaying social science lives have been lost. The question now is whether a new WHO can improve.

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Close Encounters of the Dental Kind

Close Encounters of the Dental Kind

After an unplanned visit to an American dentist, Robert Dingwall reflects on the power and the role of the case study

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Antibiotic Resistance – Missing the Point?

Antibiotic Resistance – Missing the Point?

There is no point in improving the innovation pipeline for antibiotics, argues Robert Dingwall, if the drugs that come out at the end all fall into the same chaotic patterns of use as today.

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Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’

Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’

The arrival of a report calling for the British government to better support social science has raised questions about the role, responses and responsibilities of a ‘public sociology.’

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Ebola – WHO (Still) Don’t Get It: Social Science Saves Lives

Ebola – WHO (Still) Don’t Get It: Social Science Saves Lives

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa reminds us of a key lesson in public health, notes Robert Dingwall: Biomedical solutions will always come late, while social science-based interventions can break the cycle much sooner.

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Debating the Legacy of Ulrich Beck

Debating the Legacy of Ulrich Beck

Amid the encomiums and eulogies surrounding the late German sociologist Ulrich Beck, Robert Dingwall asks how far Beck’s body of published work represents a model that other sociologists should seek to follow

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Ebola: The Human Cost of Neglecting the Social Sciences

Ebola: The Human Cost of Neglecting the Social Sciences

There is a genuine cost from ignoring lessons from social science in the fight against Ebola. What’s even sadder — these lessons were taught in blood three decades ago in the fights against AIDS. Are we ready for the next malady?

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