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March marks the 1-year anniversary of life in lockdown. This series looks at how COVID-19 has changed the way we consume and reshapes the way we connect, communicate and live.
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This free online LSE Festival on the theme of Shaping the Post-COVID World is part of a wider research initiative exploring the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis.
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In the new HEPI report, “Mixed Media: what universities need to know about journalists so they can get a better press”, veteran journalist Rosemary Bennett addresses the universities’ routine silence in public discussion of education and what they should do to rectify that.
With a virus running rampant across the world, the value of a global perspective becomes obvious: We must remember to observe the nuances of cultural and […]
David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.
We all want stuff, but in our overdeveloped, fast-paced culture we seldom challenge ourselves to ask ourselves the one important question: how much is enough?
“COVID has put a magnifying glass on existing inequalities,” says Jolanda Jetten, a professor of social psychology at the University of Queensland, “and it’s clear that the degree of suffering is unfairly on the shoulders of the poorer groups in societies, and also the poorest countries in this world.”
Ethical research involves much more than a pre-study review or forms to explain how the study adheres to the institution’s […]
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named 37 individuals in its spring 2021 cohort of fellows. New fellows are recognized, after an independent peer review process, for the excellence and impact of their work and their wider contributions to the social sciences for public benefit.
Persistent rejection by academic arbiters – whether journals, grant makers or employers – is problematic, and focusing on the individual academic is not the whole solution
Some of the most challenging problems facing our world, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require not just one field of […]
In terms of the organization of academic labor, higher education is ever more sharply divided between, on the one hand, an advantaged minority in full-time, long-term employment and, on the other hand, academia’s reserve army of labor.
One of the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, argues social psychologist S. Alex Haslam, are many traditional views of leadership. […]
A look at the career of Alonda Nelson, who is now essentially the national adviser for social and behavioral sciences in the United States.
