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Recently, The Independent published a brief piece on the ‘slave-like’ working conditions of PhD students at UK universities. This sounds dramatic, but it’s hardly news – the problem has been around for years. The question arises why dissent did not emerge earlier and more forcefully.
The Guardian yesterday published a set of worrying facts. Even though consumers of higher education pay almost three times as much in tuition fees than they did six years ago, face-to-face with lecturers in class has barely increased
A response to Sir Simon Jenkins’ article on the value of public universities.
How an unholy alliance of arrogant scientists and self-interested federal bureaucrats came to widen the net of ethical regulation intended to deal with abuses in medical research to empirical investigation in the humanities and social sciences.
I find it ironic that interesting current debates about sociology’s Eurocentrism and calls for a more truly global sociology take place in journals and books that are likely to be inaccessible at many, many universities around the world.
The connection between money, degrees, employability, and the ‘real-world’ relevance of academic work has been hammered so relentlessly into our minds that is has become virtually possible to eschew.
In the New York Times recently Paul Krugman described how academic economists grow up, and how blogging might change that….
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on […]
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.
