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 […]
Stirling vs Philip Morris: A car-crash for social science?
A busy summer means the blog can be overtaken by events. I had intended to write on 11 July about the threat […]
Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings
Robin J. Wilson, Franca Cortoni, and Andrew J. McWhinnie, co-authored “Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings,” […]
Research ethics and the ‘News of the World’
I was going to write about last week’s decision by the UK Information Commissioner to force the University of East Anglia to […]
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 […]
