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 […]
The Myths of Offender Profiling
Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.
To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.
So what exactly are the rules by which academic careers work? Where does one learn them? How does one learn them? And how, exactly, is playing by the rules to the benefit of one’s career?
Balancing Independence with Support
How much autonomy do we have as Early Career Researchers?
Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research
“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.
Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement
Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.
An ECR Review of the year
Along with all the frivolity this is also the time of year where people look back at what they have done in the last twelve months so I am taking the opportunity with this post to look back at what’s happened this year
How do you establish trust and authority in today’s scholarly digital environment?
We would like to invite early career researchers to take part in a focus group to look at how scholars assign trust […]
Are You a Viking? University, Masculinity and the Language of Violence
The academic world today is in the process of being colonised by the values, mindset, and operational principles of business.
