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 […]
Academy in today’s Guardian: Social scientists explain many things – but can they explain themselves?
In the Guardian today, the Academy of Social Sciences’ public engagement officer, Kate Roach, takes on Nick Cohen’s point on social science […]
Does the way social scientists write stop them being heard?
The commentator Nick Cohen argues in an article this week that many academics – specifically in social sciences and humanities – are unable to write clearly […]
The arts and cultural sector faces ‘apocalyptic’ cuts in austere Britain. But new ways of looking at economic value can help to make the case for culture
In the government’s programme of cuts it has become clear that the arts may well be hit the hardest. While historically it […]
Why We Have Launched Social Science Space
Over the last year SAGE has devoted time and energy to celebrating the social sciences. We have done so by convening a […]
Who is influencing public policy and why?
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) Chair: George […]
‘Standards matter in higher education, not just participation rates’
An anonymous university lecturer calls for higher education not only to be free but also to be genuinely higher education. The writer contends that […]
Is democracy possible now?
Last month, SAGE sponsored a one-day symposium at the British Academy on the future of democracy, and media’s contribution to that future. It […]
How did London get away with it? The recession and the north-south divide
Henry G Overman, professor of economic geography at LSE and director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre Last week was the first […]
