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 […]
Working Outside of Academia does Not Mean I Sold Out!
I have argued repeatedly that Social Scientists have a lot to offer sectors outside of the Ivory Tower and it is time we stopped associating this with negative words like failure and selling out.
Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth
In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast sociologist Ann Oakley discusses her research into a range of questions about women’s experience of childbirth.
How Useful are E-Readers for Academic Reading, Really?
E-readers are now commonplace. But how useful are e-readers as a replacement for printed academic books and journal articles?
How Does Sociology Feel?
Just as it is insufficiently recognised in public debates, the emotional side of forced flexibility in academic labour does not appear to be a major topic of conversation among established sociologists
Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?
There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?
Job Search 2.0: Breaking the Silence
If we don’t discuss the job search as anything more than a painful memory, we add to the mystique of gaining academic employment, isolating ourselves in the process.
Can We Make College Cheaper?
The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.
