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 […]
When did the Big Society turn into Big Brother?
A column by Tom Sutcliffe in today’s Independent addresses the question of academic freedom posed by reports that the Arts and Humanities […]
Recent speeches by UK Universities Minister on the Government’s vision for higher education
The Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts MP, has made several key speeches recently setting out the Government’s views on the role […]
21st Century Challenges: Persistent Poverty in Britain
The Royal Geographical Society is proud to announce that they will be hosting an event at part of the not-for-profit discussion series, “21st […]
I gave it a nudge but it won’t budge
New research suggests the superficial appeal of governing by light touch founders in the health arena where so many ‘unhealthy nudges’ are […]
Does the way social scientists write stop them being heard?
The commentator Nick Cohen argues in an article this week that many academics – specifically in social sciences and humanities – are unable to write clearly […]
The arts and cultural sector faces ‘apocalyptic’ cuts in austere Britain. But new ways of looking at economic value can help to make the case for culture
In the government’s programme of cuts it has become clear that the arts may well be hit the hardest. While historically it […]
Who is influencing public policy and why?
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) Chair: George […]
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]
