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 […]
Gangster Anthropologist
Jorja Leap immersed herself in the culture of Los Angeles’ notorious street gangs for over 10 years, interviewing and working with hundreds of active and former gang members.
British Higher Education and the Language of Business
Money, markets, and higher education in the media.
A Sociologist’s Adventures in Social Media Land
Like many academics, I was quite oblivious to the virtues of using digital social media for professional purposes for rather a long time. Then one day earlier this year the scales fell from my eyes.
I’m academic male & I don’t care about female ECRs?!
I expect many of you will be aware of the very amusing yet, at the same time, incredibly scary twitter account @academic male…
“The author has asked not to be identified in case this further affects his career prospects.”
Many PhD graduates are forced into the troubled world of unemployment while, at the same time, being denied a public voice. How is it that extremely narrow standards of professional legitimacy are used to judge young scholars who simply cannot meet them?
Digital Social Science Vs Digital Humanities: Who does what & does it matter?
In an era where Social Science is being asked to prove its relevance the development of a broad Digital research agenda could, in my opinion, should be the way forward.
