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The Myth of Academic Stardom

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 14, 2013

The recent and on-going reforms of higher education are enforcing an individualisation of academic labour. That academics would gamely play along with such a system is astonishing.

Posted in Career, Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate | Also tagged Academic Branding, Branding, Corporatization, Doctorates, individualization, Labor, REF, reform, Social Science, Sociology | Leave a comment

A Sociology of Financialisation?

By Tim Dant | Published: October 15, 2012

Beyond an economic analysis of the financial crisis

Posted in Featured, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged David Tyfield, Debt, Economics, financial crisis, free market ideology, Hurrican Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Industialised, John Urry, Keynes, Keynesian, Labor, Lancaster University, Market Capitalist, Neo-Liberal, peak oil, Privatisation, privatization, resource shortage, Social Science, Sociology, Sylvia Walby, Tim Dant | Leave a comment

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