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 […]
Protecting research degrees: why we must continue to train PhD students
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Paul Wellings At around this time of year, at least […]
Are we sleepwalking into the US higher education system’s mistakes?
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Patrick McGhee As a busy vice-chancellor I cherish those moments […]
The human paradox that is common sense
Duncan Watts writes in New Scientist that ‘common sense’ can help us make sense of human behaviour – but can also undermine […]
Where did all the sociologists go? Querying ‘the lecturer experience’
The new government’s announcements of forthcoming changes to the workings of British higher education have inspired much debate. The major newspapers have […]
Song Lyrics, Twitter Help Chart Public Mood
Michael Haederle describes a new research method to work out the mood of a group of people. Social scientists seeking to assess the […]
Evidence-based policy-making: report by UK parliamentary committee
A report published by the UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-committee on behavioural change policy finds that ‘nudges’ and similar […]
Specialisation is back on the HE agenda, but not for the first time
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In June results were released of the pilot […]
Research ethics and the ‘News of the World’
I was going to write about last week’s decision by the UK Information Commissioner to force the University of East Anglia to […]
