Social Science Space

The newly-created Campaign for Social Science has just reached its first fundraising milestone of £50,000.  This is a significant step […]

An article by Tom Jacobs in Miller McCune Magazine discusses new research that links community college tuition rates in the […]

In an essay published in the London Review of Books, Howard Hotson analyses the THE-QS World University Rankings and concludes […]

The latest blog-post on ‘Sociology and the Cuts’ is a pulling-no-punches critique of the proposal by the University of East […]

At a recent seminar of the Campaign for the Public University, someone raised what is an increasingly pressing question. Why […]

188 academics, mainly from the UK, have signed a letter published in today’s Observer newspaper, on the decision by the […]

A column by Tom Sutcliffe in today’s Independent addresses the question of academic freedom posed by reports that the Arts […]

UK Government and research funding agencies are pursuing a strategy of focusing and concentrating the funding of social science research […]

Perri 6, Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, has produced a detailed analysis of the implications of concentrating […]

The Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts MP, has made several key speeches recently setting out the Government’s views on […]

A blog by Les Back on Sociology and the Cuts argues that it is wrong to blame consumerist students for the […]

The Campaign for the Public University defends and promotes the idea of university as a public good. The following is an […]