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 […]
ALISS Recommends: Useful Resources for Training and Student Inductions.
Are you trying to cope with 100s of student induction sessions? Looking for inspiration in designing training courses? Here are some recommended […]
What to consider when crafting your online identity
The question of what value social media, particularly blogging, holds in academia is ongoing and at times controversial. This is well illustrated […]
My social science career: Interview with Russell Schutt
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Russell Schutt talks to socialsciencespace about how he became interested […]
Students as consumers – the impact of individual choice
The higher education White Paper published this week by the UK government (‘Students at the heart of the system’) will, according to […]
‘Dismantling excellence, reducing quality, and increasing costs for students’
The Campaign for the Public University has posted a response to the UK Government’s White Paper on higher education, arguing that the […]
“Research matters: Graduates with quantitive methods skills are increasingly sought after”
Ricky Rylance writes in the Independent about the value of quantitive methods to social science students. “Mention quantitive methods to any social […]
A US perspective on England’s new private ‘liberal arts’ college
A US perspective on the New College of the Humanities in the UK, which will charge students £18,000 per year and will offer […]
Plagiarism and academic integrity
I first thought of doing a piece on stealing intellectual property when I started noticing my words being used without credit in […]
