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Here Are the Blocks You Need to Tell Your Impact Story
Impact
September 22, 2020

Here Are the Blocks You Need to Tell Your Impact Story

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Social Science, STEM and Career Skills: Not ‘Either/Or’ But ‘Both/And’
Career
September 17, 2020

Social Science, STEM and Career Skills: Not ‘Either/Or’ But ‘Both/And’

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Will We See A More Private, But Less Useful, Census?
Census
September 14, 2020

Will We See A More Private, But Less Useful, Census?

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Some Americans Don’t Trust the Census
Census
September 14, 2020

Some Americans Don’t Trust the Census

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Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change

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.

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Open Letter Defends Social Science, Humanities in Wake of Pandemic

Open Letter Defends Social Science, Humanities in Wake of Pandemic

This week, almost 60 learned societies, associations and higher-education serving groups signed onto an open letter that argues “humanistic education and scholarship must remain central to campus communities and conversations.”

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Do We Value Unfunded Research Properly?

Do We Value Unfunded Research Properly?

Unfunded research takes time and money for already stretched academics. Yet it makes up over a quarter of all research carried out in British universities. Rosalind Edwards spoken to academics about why they do unfunded research.

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Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Plan Carefully

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.

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Let’s Learn From COVID – Universities Should Rethink the Exam

Let’s Learn From COVID – Universities Should Rethink the Exam

As universities start to imagine a post-pandemic future, they are faced with a choice – to simply return to the way things were, or embrace this opportunity to change assessment for good.

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Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Think Twice

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.

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Rodney Coates Outlines A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing Academe

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.

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Minerva Initiative Seems Likely to Avoid Untimely Death

Minerva Initiative Seems Likely to Avoid Untimely Death

In early February, the proposed U.S. government budget for the 2021 fiscal year featured sizable funding cuts to many federally funded social […]

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