Social Science Space

As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists Ellen Wartella, a scholar on the role of […]

“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude […]

At some point during the past decade, the line managers began to arrive. Many sociology departments lost their ‘heads’, who […]

Institutionalised sociology begins in the classroom. The classroom is the principal site in which sociologists communicate with non-sociologists or – idealistically – future sociologists about the ethos and knowledge of the discipline.

In a recent article for Miller-McCune Magazine, “‘Wither’ The Liberal Arts College?”, English professor Anne Trubek discusses the troubled state of […]

An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed […]

The Campaign for the Public University is putting together an ‘Alternative White Paper’ on the future of HE funding and […]

This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Paul Wellings At around this time of year, […]

There is no government mandate for the privatisation of higher education and for the despoiling of the social and cultural […]