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 […]
Breaking silences on broken promises
At a recent seminar of the Campaign for the Public University, someone raised what is an increasingly pressing question. Why aren’t more […]
Public letter from academics on AHRC decision to promote Big Society research
188 academics, mainly from the UK, have signed a letter published in today’s Observer newspaper, on the decision by the Arts and […]
When did the Big Society turn into Big Brother?
A column by Tom Sutcliffe in today’s Independent addresses the question of academic freedom posed by reports that the Arts and Humanities […]
Time to concentrate?
UK Government and research funding agencies are pursuing a strategy of focusing and concentrating the funding of social science research into a […]
A new binary divide? Social science after concentration, and how to cope…
Perri 6, Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, has produced a detailed analysis of the implications of concentrating doctoral training […]
Recent speeches by UK Universities Minister on the Government’s vision for higher education
The Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts MP, has made several key speeches recently setting out the Government’s views on the role […]
Why understanding can’t be bought or sold
A blog by Les Back on Sociology and the Cuts argues that it is wrong to blame consumerist students for the way that […]
Social research and public accountability
The Campaign for the Public University defends and promotes the idea of university as a public good. The following is an extract from a […]
