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Why Social Science Education is as Important as STEM…

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 26, 2013

A recent Ipsos-Mori survey reveals the crucial role that social science has to play in modern democracy, a role which is frequently sabotaged.

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged Demography, Immigration, Impact, Ipsos Mori, Kwasi Kwarteng, Policy, Professor Tomaney, Race, Royal Statistical Society, Social Science, Social Science Research | 1 Response

Universities for the Post-Democratic Age

By Daniel Nehring | Published: June 23, 2013

Critical scholarship and intellectual dissent are currently being closed down in favour of a model of academic life that accords scholars a limited role as...

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Tagged Capitalism, corporate social responsibility, Crisis, Democracy, Disaster Capitalism, Edward Snowdon, markets, neoliberalism, NSA, Philip K. Dick, Post-democratic society, Rationalization, Snowdon, Social Science, Sociology, Teaching, UK, University, US, Whistleblowers | Leave a comment

UK backs Social Science, the World benefits

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: June 13, 2013

Studying ourselves is something the British do exceptionally well: specialists flock here from all over the world seeking answers to fundamental questions from our unique...

Also posted in Academic Funding, Higher Education Reform, International Debate | Tagged Administrative Data Taskforce, AHRC, Birth Cohort, Birth Cohort Studies, British Government, Campaign for Social Science, Coalition, David Willetts, Department of Business, Diana Kuh, Economic and Developmental Demography, employment data, ESRC, FE data, HE data, Heather Joshi, innovation, Longi, Making the Case for the Social Sciences, National Science Foundation, NRC Unit of Lifelong Health and Ageing, Polly Toynbee, SAGE, Social Mobility Transparency Board, Social Science, Universities and Science, Ziyad Marar | Leave a comment

The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 29, 2013

The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged American Academy of Political and Social Science, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Douglas S.Massey, employment, Inequality, Labor, Political Science, Poverty, Race, Social Science, Sociology, William Julius Wilson | 1 Response

Can Brands be Intellectuals?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 27, 2013

As an academic, you are a brand not only as a matter of choice, but, increasingly, due to powerful institutional imperatives that are becoming harder...

Also posted in Academic Funding, Career, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate | Tagged Academia, Academic Jobs, Branding, Bureaucratization, C.Write Mills, Careers, competition, Early Career Researchers, intellectuals, jobs, Research, Social Networking, Social Science, The Sociological Imagination, Twitter | Leave a comment

Groped at Luton Airport: Accountability and the Security State

By Robert Dingwall | Published: May 26, 2013

I was still wearing my belt and triggered the detection gate. What followed was the most intrusive search that I have experienced at any UK...

Also posted in International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged Accountability, Airport security, Freedom of Information, Luton, market failure, Privatisation, privatization, regulation, TSA | 2 Responses

Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 16, 2013

SAGE’s Global Publishing Director, Ziyad Marar talks with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about the one year anniversary of Social Science Bites.

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, Public Engagement, Social Science Bites | Tagged Daniel Kahneman, David Edmonds, Interview, Nigel Warburton, podcast, Social Science, Social Science Bites, Steven Pinker, Ziyad Marar | Leave a comment

The Myth of Academic Stardom

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 14, 2013

The recent and on-going reforms of higher education are enforcing an individualisation of academic labour. That academics would gamely play along with such a system...

Also posted in Career, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate | Tagged Academic Branding, Branding, Corporatization, Doctorates, individualization, Labor, labour, REF, reform, Social Science, Sociology | Leave a comment

Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 5, 2013

Federal surveys have been getting more expensive to administer, in part because the number of people who actually respond to surveys has been progressively...

Also posted in Academic Funding, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research | Tagged Data, Digital Data, Federal Funding, Funding, quantitative research, Social Science, Statistics, Surveys | Leave a comment

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if...

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged BCS/CSEW, British Crime Survey, Crime, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Danny Dorling, financial crisis, Inequality, Interpersonal violence, Police, Poverty, Property, Recession | Leave a comment

Accountability, Compliance and Bureaucratisation in Higher Education

By Ferdinand von Prondzynski | Published: April 26, 2013

Around the educational mission we are now spinning a web of ‘accountability’ that has little to do with explaining or justifying our activities, and much...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News | Tagged Academic Job, Academic Job Search, Accountability, Bureaucratization, Dublin City University, risk management, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, University | Leave a comment

Signs of the Times

By Daniel Nehring | Published: April 24, 2013

Tom Wolfe, Miami, and the shallowness of our image-driven modern life.

Also posted in International Debate | Tagged Book Review, Celebrity Culture, Image-obsessed, Literature, Reading, Superficiality, Tome Wolfe | Leave a comment

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