Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
What to Share… Digital Professionalism Part 2
In my last piece I wrote about digital professionalism in terms of what not to share. This was based on the premise […]
Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP
In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee published the report Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies, examining the role of science […]
What Not to Share: Digital Professionalism & Academia.
When creating your online identity one of the major things to consider is the concept of digital professionalism, or as I like […]
My social science career: Interview with Elinor Ostrom
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Elinor Ostrom spoke to socialsciencespace. In 2009, she became the […]
Social scientists’ role in strengthening trust in scientific evidence
Originally posted to the SAGE Connection blog Last week was the ESRC’s annual festival of social science. This is the third year […]
“The awkward guest at the dinner party”
The ninth annual Festival of Social Science took place last week in the UK, organised by the Economic and Social Research Council […]
The new language of sociology: ‘Line manager’
At some point during the past decade, the line managers began to arrive. Many sociology departments lost their ‘heads’, who then re-appeared […]
#OWS: What took so long?
In a recent Miller-McCune article, Tom Jacobs looks at research by psychologists that links people’s reluctance to protest against Wall Street bailouts […]
