Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
“Journals Serving as Tombstones” 学术期刊只是墓碑
In the New York Times recently Paul Krugman described how academic economists grow up, and how blogging might change that….
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 […]
