Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Stand Out and Be Counted: Quantitative Skills
The British Academy recently published a guide for students encouraging those studying the humanities and social sciences to become statistically savvy.
Big Data: Benefit to Society, or Drowning in a Data Deluge?
With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.
ESRC Festival of Social Science, and the ‘Big Data’ Debate
This week is the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, an event that takes place all over the UK where social scientists get […]
Research Integrity in the UK – the Spawn of Satan?
A document drops into my inbox that purports to be a draft Concordat between the major UK funders and university managements on research integrity – a publication that has already been set for July 2012, but someone belatedly thought that it might be a good idea to get disciplinary associations on board.
ESRC’s ‘Celebrating the Social Sciences’
Here’s a quick link to the recently launched ESRC video, ‘Celebrating the social sciences’
Festival of Social Science – celebration of social science research in the UK
Now in its ninth year, the Festival of Social Science has become an annual event in the calendar of many academics. Amy […]
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 […]
