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 […]
The LSE Big Questions Lecture 2011: Organized Common Sense
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the […]
My social science career: Interview with Ellen Wartella
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists Ellen Wartella, a scholar on the role of media in […]
The new language of sociology: Teaching and Learning, part 2
“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude obnoxious person.” […]
The new language of sociology: ‘Line manager’
At some point during the past decade, the line managers began to arrive. Many sociology departments lost their ‘heads’, who then re-appeared […]
The new language of sociology: teaching-and-learning
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.
The glum future of the American liberal arts college
In a recent article for Miller-McCune Magazine, “‘Wither’ The Liberal Arts College?”, English professor Anne Trubek discusses the troubled state of American liberal […]
‘In defence of public higher education’
An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed reforms to […]
Alternative White Paper
The Campaign for the Public University is putting together an ‘Alternative White Paper’ on the future of HE funding and is calling […]
