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The Mental Health Care System Needs Urgent Care Itself

By Michael Todd | Published: May 15, 2019

Whatever level of public awareness exists about mental health, it’s probably safe to say that awareness about the system of mental health care is considerably...

Also posted in Bookshelf, Public Policy | Tagged Joel Vos, mental health, Mental Health in Crisis | Leave a comment

Trans-Atlantic Approaches to Impact and Knowledge Exchange

By Louis Coiffait | Published: May 15, 2019

For this fifth article in the series of measuring impact, Louis Coiffait spoke to two leading UK experts who also know other countries; Dr Hamish...

Also posted in Academic Funding, Impact, Innovation | Tagged Alumni, Higher Education Innovation Fund, Intellectual Property Rights, NIST, STAR Metrics | Leave a comment

Software Is Not the Silver Bullet to Defeat Plagiarism

By Amanda Mphahlele and Sioux McKenna | Published: May 9, 2019

Turnitin and similar programs don’t deal with the causes of plagiarism. Rather, argue Amanda Mphahlele and Sioux McKenna, they allow institutions to claim they’re doing...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform | Tagged Plagiarism, The Conversation, Turnitin | Leave a comment

SSRC, Social Science One Name Social Media Research Grantees

By Social Science Research Council | Published: May 7, 2019

As part of a pioneering effort to systematically use privacy-protected Facebook data to study the platform’s impact on democracy, the Social Science Research Council and...

Also posted in Announcements, Recognition, Research | Tagged Facebook, Fake News, Social Media, Social Media and Democracy Research Grants, Social Science One, SSRC | Leave a comment

Fast Professor: WeChat and Future Academe

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 6, 2019

Daniel Nehring describes China's social networking platform WeChat as 'Facebook on steroids,' and notes it has long surpassed e-mail as the main tool of mediating...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Innovation | Tagged Social Media, WeChat | Leave a comment

Monika Krause on Humanitarian Aid

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 1, 2019

Humanitarian aid organizations often find themselves torn by reasonable expectations – to address a pressing crisis and to show that what they are doing is...

Also posted in Public Policy, Social Science Bites | Tagged Humanitarian Aid, Monika Krause, NGOs | Leave a comment

Hate Speech on Social Media Undermines Important UN Declarations

By Luiz Valerio P. Trindade | Published: April 22, 2019

Evidence suggests that one effect of the growing phenomenon of online hate speech is that it fosters varied forms of inequalities (e.g. class, race, gender,...

Also posted in News, Research | Tagged Hate Speech, Social Media | Leave a comment

What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?

By Gene Tracy | Published: April 19, 2019

Outsourcing our memories -- or actually forgetting once-vital skills that no longer matter in our daily lives -- has always been with humanity. But how...

Also posted in Innovation | Tagged Artificial Intelligence | Leave a comment

Thoughts on Gender in the 21st Century University Environment

By Kip Jones | Published: April 16, 2019

In May 2017 a small band of researchers at Bournemouth University organized a workshop on “Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century.” The participants’ openness...

Posted in International Debate | Tagged gender, Sexualities | Leave a comment

Whatever Happened to Conservative Social Thought?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 16, 2019

In the wake of Brexit, Robert Dingwall asks a series of probing questions about the eclipse of Conservative Social Thought at universities, such as when...

Also posted in Brexit, Higher Education Reform | Tagged conservatism, Conservative Social Thought, Friedrich Hayek | Leave a comment

Might Campus Free Speech Laws Muzzle Some Speech?

By Neal H. Hutchens | Published: April 15, 2019

Some language in campus speech legislation may be largely symbolic and not change what many colleges are already doing. But, argues Neal Hutchens, some provisions...

Also posted in Public Policy | Tagged free speech, Freedom of Expression | Leave a comment

What’s That? The Replication Crisis is Good for Science?

By Eric Loken | Published: April 10, 2019

The 'replication crisis' certainly is uncomfortable for many scientists whose work gets undercut, and the rate of failures may currently be unacceptably high. But psychologist...

Also posted in Research | Tagged Open Science, Psychology, Replication Crisis, Reproducibility, The Conversation | Leave a comment

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International Debate

The Mental Health Care System Needs Urgent Care Itself

Trans-Atlantic Approaches to Impact and Knowledge Exchange

Software Is Not the Silver Bullet to Defeat Plagiarism

SSRC, Social Science One Name Social Media Research Grantees

Fast Professor: WeChat and Future Academe

Monika Krause on Humanitarian Aid

Hate Speech on Social Media Undermines Important UN Declarations

What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?

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Whatever Happened to Conservative Social Thought?

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