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What Is the Value of Social Science?

By SAGE | Published: April 11, 2013

Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less

Also posted in Academic Funding, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Congress, Funding, NIH, NSF | Leave a comment

Working Outside of Academia does Not Mean I Sold Out!

By Sarah-Louise Quinnell | Published: April 2, 2013

I have argued repeatedly that Social Scientists have a lot to offer sectors outside of the Ivory Tower and it is time we stopped associating...

Also posted in Career, Public Engagement | Tagged Alternative Careers, Early Career, outside academia, rogue scholar | Leave a comment

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 27, 2013

The Ivory Tower has been toppled and academia has an impact in the ‘real world’. The problem is that this may have come at the...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Tagged Branding, British Sociological Association, BSA, Education, Entreprenurial university, Ivory Tower, Matthew Goodwin, Social Science, Sociology, The Guardian | Leave a comment

Will Social Science Research Cuts Affect the Human Rights Situation in the U.S.?

By Joseph Wronka | Published: March 20, 2013

On social science, the sequester, and the need for a Human Rights Culture.

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged American Association for the Advancement of Science, Convention on the Elimination Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Funding, human rights, Human Rights Culture, Joseph Wronka, National Science Foundation, NSF, Research Funding, Social Science, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 2 Responses

Toxic, Poisonous and Stupid: Iraq War Decision-Making Ten Years On

By Leo McCann | Published: March 19, 2013

Even within its own narrow terms the Iraq war was appallingly costly. A bad decision to invade was compounded by shambolic and ineffective leadership of...

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged 100 with 50, Bernard Trainor, Blair Government, Bush Administration, Business School, Cobra II, Colonel George E. Reed, Corporatization, Counterinsurgency, Decision-Making, Department of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Iraq War, Journalism Studies, Media, Michael Gordon, Organization Studies, Pentagon, Resource Management, State Department, The Pentagon Papers, Tony Blair, Toxic Leadership, Vietnam, Wikileaks, WMDs | Leave a comment

Making Sense of Crime Trends

By Richard Garside | Published: March 15, 2013

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under...

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research | Tagged British Crime Survey, Crime, Crime Rates, Crime Survey for England, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Criminology, Demography, Graphs, Homicide, Richard Garside, Robbery, Social Science, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Trends | 1 Response

Undercover Pressures

By David Canter | Published: March 12, 2013

Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, they still keep throwing up...

Also posted in International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged Colin Stagg, Crime, Criminology, Donnie Brasco, Gary Frakas, Joseph D. Pistone, Laurence Miller, Lizzie James, Michel Girodo, Mossad, police work, psychological disturbance, Psychology, Psycological trauma, PTSD, Rachel Nickell, Raj Persaud, Social Science, Working Undercover | 1 Response

In praise of Sociology! Speech by Pierre Bourdieu

By Social Science Space | Published: March 7, 2013

In the February edition of Sociology, a previously unpublished translation of a speech given by Pierre Bourdieu. Here is an excerpt and introduction.

Also posted in International Debate, News, Science & Social Science | Tagged Bourdieu, Gold Medal of the National Center for Scientific Research, Social Science, Social Scientist, Sociology | Leave a comment

Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technology

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 1, 2013

New technologies have dramatically changed choices around reproduction. Sarah Franklin, Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, discusses her research

Also posted in Audio, Communication, Public Engagement, Resources, Science & Social Science, Social Science Bites | Tagged Cambridge, Reproduction, Reproductive Technology, Sarah Franklin, Social Science, society | Leave a comment

Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: February 27, 2013

“We are now in a situation where science, technology, engineering and maths – the STEM subjects – were about 15 to 20 years ago....there was...

Also posted in Academic Funding, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Campaign for Social Science Roadshow, Government, London Metropolitan University, Michael Harloe, Parliament, Policy, Social Science, STEM subjects | Leave a comment

Science, Advocacy and Anthropology

By American Anthropological Association (AAA) | Published: February 22, 2013

Contrary to some loudly voiced claims, both advocacy and science are (and long have been) at the core of our discipline.

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, Public Engagement, Science & Social Science | Tagged AAA, Academia, Advocacy, Alan Goodman, American Anthropological Association, Anthropology, Ed Liebow, Leith Mullings, Monica Heller, New York Times Magazine, Race, Race Project, responsibility, Science, Social Science | Leave a comment

How Does Sociology Feel?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: February 19, 2013

Just as it is insufficiently recognised in public debates, the emotional side of forced flexibility in academic labour does not appear to be a major...

Also posted in Career, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Tagged Academic Job Market, Academic Job Search, Casualisation, Casualised Labor, Instability, Job Anxiety, Job Market, Job Search, Social Science, Sociology, Temporary Contract | Leave a comment

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