Stephen M. Walt asks in a Foreign Policy blog-post whether the field of international relations is still dominated by scholars from North […]
A US perspective on the New College of the Humanities in the UK, which will charge students £18,000 per year and will offer […]
A new post on the Center for International Forestry Research blog sets out the importance of social sciences in understanding the causes […]
This was the question posed at the most recent ‘Myths and Realities’ debate hosted this week in London by the British Library […]
A new report by Community Links and the Refugee Council examines the causes of informal economic activity within refugee communities in London […]
In an essay published in the London Review of Books, Howard Hotson analyses the THE-QS World University Rankings and concludes that market […]
Can creativity flourish at a time when government funding for arts and humanities is being cut? That was the question under discussion […]
A new book by Alexandra Robbins looks at social science research about what ‘popularity’ means, why cliques rule schools and how individual […]
Christopher Jencks, known for his novel and inventive opinions on hot topic issues like income inequality, homelessness, and racial gaps in standardized […]
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]
Are you a researcher with an idea that could help solve one of today’s most pressing problems? A conference in Dubai this […]
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of ‘internet famous’ celebrities. And that new people has a class of […]
