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 […]
September 23, 2020
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Instilling a Higher Sense of Purpose in Business Education
For all the talk of social consciousness at academic conferences, personal wealth remains the imprimatur of business success par excellence. How then, we asked ourselves, can business schools expect their students to take ethics and social responsibility truly seriously?
Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change
As conversations around decolonization in universities are being afforded greater urgency, some key risks of this institutional capture or inertia to wider decolonization efforts are described by Rima Saini.
Beyond Illness: COVID-19 is Hurting Women In Academia
Women are facing additional constraints as a result of COVID-19. These range from the added burdens and responsibilities of working from home, through to the fact that fewer women scientists are being quoted as experts on COVID-19, all the way to far fewer women being part of the cohort producing new knowledge on the pandemic.
Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Plan Carefully
At their heart, Chinese public universities are deeply parochial bureaucratic structures geared towards the party-state’s priorities for socio-economic development. In response to national and international pressures, some universities have recently begun to internationalize, with notably different degrees of enthusiasm. Others have not. You would do well to determine, the author writes, into what category a prospective employer falls.
Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Think Twice
China has become an increasingly attractive destination for Western social scientists, both for those doing research in and on China and for those looking to continue their careers with meaningful, long-term perspectives.
Rodney Coates Outlines A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing Academe
Public sociologist Rodney Coates, a professor of critical race and ethnic studies and of global and intercultural studies at Miami University of Ohio, and author the SAGE Publishing text The Matrix of Race, will present a free webinar on “A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing the University” on July 30. While the webinar filled up with a few hours of being announced, a recording will appear here on Social Science Space. In the meantime, here is the 12-step program Coates first presented on social media this spring.
Virtual Festival of Higher Education Looks at British HE post-COVID
The University of Buckingham, in association with the Higher Education Policy Institute, in bringing the fifth festival of Higher Education online with […]
Why We Need Experiential Scholarship to Better Understand Racial Inequality
It wasn’t until I started doing a degree in gender studies that I was told it was OK to use the first […]
