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Managing Universities: Dodging the Dead Cat
Higher Education Reform
September 11, 2017

Managing Universities: Dodging the Dead Cat

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To Know a Society, Know Its Crime
Research
September 6, 2017

To Know a Society, Know Its Crime

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Ioanna Palaiologou on Play
Research
September 1, 2017

Ioanna Palaiologou on Play

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UK HE: Markets Are Good for Everyone – Except Academics….
Brexit
August 4, 2017

UK HE: Markets Are Good for Everyone – Except Academics….

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Has Social Science Made DARE Actually Work?

Has Social Science Made DARE Actually Work?

The US attorney general has been mocked for wanting to bring back a discredited drug-prevention program from the Reagan era. But have evidence-based researchers created a modern-day version that might actually perform as promised?

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Addressing Reproducibility in Archaeology: Our Three-Pronged Approach

Addressing Reproducibility in Archaeology: Our Three-Pronged Approach

Replication and reproducibility have been big issues in medicine and psychology and economics, but les talked about in fields like archaeology. Here, Ben Marwick and Zenobia Jacobs discuss their latest paper’s reproducibility strategy and its tactics during fieldwork, labwork and data analysis.

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Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability

Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability

How well do sociology departments in the UK teach sociology that originated in the UK? Asking that surprisingly hard question may produce usable insights for academic Britain, argues our Robert Dingwall.

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Is Karl Marx Living at this Hour?

Is Karl Marx Living at this Hour?

David Canter reviews the evidence amassing to show the depredations of economic inequality.

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How Fake News Pulls Real News Into Its Orbit

How Fake News Pulls Real News Into Its Orbit

Is the problem with fake news that individual stories confuse people? Or could it be, argues a new paper, that fake news sets the agenda that other and more legitimate media then follow?

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Archived Webinar: Marijuana on the Mind – A Primer for Policymakers

Archived Webinar: Marijuana on the Mind – A Primer for Policymakers

‘Policy has clearly outpaced science’ in the United States on the issue of legalizing marijuana for either medical or recreational use, say two researchers from Harvard University and McLean Hospital

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How Does Economic Inequality Affect Children’s Development?

How Does Economic Inequality Affect Children’s Development?

It has been widely recognized that poverty is a key variable to explain why over 200 million young children from low- and middle-income countries do not develop at similar levels as their non-poor peers. Time and again, our research shows that being poor often is associated with many other health and social problems that make it hard to get out of poverty.

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Keeping Government ‘Nudges’ From the Dark Side

Keeping Government ‘Nudges’ From the Dark Side

Governments around the world have found success using the burgeoning field of behavioral science to improve the efficiency of their policies and increase citizens’ well-being. We need clear guidelines on when and how to use behavioral science in policy.

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