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 […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Microsoft opens up new research center targeting social scientists for hire, what social science can do for India, the social science of archaeology and much more on this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.
Dumbing up
The challenge of writing popular psychology came home to me recently when I accepted the invitation to write Forensic Psychology for Dummies
What are the prospects for global sociology?
For there to be some sort of global sociology there would need to a recognition of socio-culturally disparate forms of knowledge and institutional settings.
The Invisible Children in the Seminar Room: Kony 2012 and digital activism.
Since its earliest days there has been a great deal of writing about online activism and the possibility of forming active publics via the Internet.
Using Racism in the (International) Seminar Room
Over the last ten years I have encountered a range of racist discourse in the teaching environment.The first often emanates from international students who inadvertently make inaccurate generalisations based on racial difference. The second is formed within the seminar room, and emanates from British students towards international students.
Global Sociology Without a Global Audience
I find it ironic that interesting current debates about sociology’s Eurocentrism and calls for a more truly global sociology take place in journals and books that are likely to be inaccessible at many, many universities around the world.
Better Drowned than Duffers…?
Last Saturday, I went to the theatre to a see a touring production based on Arthur Ransome’s novel, Swallows and Amazons…. it prompted a number of thoughts about risk and risk management in the contemporary world.
The LSE Big Questions Lecture 2011: Organized Common Sense
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the […]
