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Death and Taxes: Can We Afford Retirement Between Them?
The Pew Research Center reported this week that Americans—in particular, younger folks in their 30s—are now more worried than they […]
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Funding
Political Science Serving the Public Interest
On May 9, the House of Representatives adopted a provision that would preclude the National Science Foundation (NSF) from supporting research in the field of political science.
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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.
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Time to concentrate?
UK Government and research funding agencies are pursuing a strategy of focusing and concentrating the funding of social science research […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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A Fiscal Black Box
I’m not sure if it was sensible to agree to join the blogosphere with an initial contribution on University Finance? […]
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Interview with Richard Bartholomew – Joint head of the Government Social Research Service
It is important that government policy is supported by the best evidence possible, and this is as true in the […]
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OppNet: an interview with Dr William N. Elwood
OppNet is the NIH’s Opportunity Network for basic behavioral and social science research grants. Dr William N. Elwood, OppNet’s Facilitator, […]
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He who pays the piper…
The Higher Education sector in the UK is about to change enormously. Put this another way, it is about to […]
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