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 […]
Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes
The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.
The Internet Black Widow
When some journalist awards a case a sobriquet like The Railway Rapist, or the Moors Murderers that the media has got its teeth into the case and will shake as much life out of it as possible.
My social science career: Interview with Ellen Wartella
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists Ellen Wartella, a scholar on the role of media in […]
Campaign for Social Science: Press Officer
The Academy of Social Sciences is looking to recruit a press officer to work on the recently launched Campaign for Social Science […]
Is democracy possible now?
Last month, SAGE sponsored a one-day symposium at the British Academy on the future of democracy, and media’s contribution to that future. It […]
Bringing social science into the light of day
Launch of the Campaign for Social Science on 20 January 2011 – introductory remarks by Professor Cary Cooper, Chair of AcSS “The Campaign for Social Science […]
Ideas and analysis – what politicians want from social scientists
Interview with Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Science & Policy. Kelvin Hopkins is MP for Luton North and Chair of […]
Invitation to apply for BSA Media Fellowships
The British Science Association has announced a series of Media Fellowships, which are intended to raise awareness and understanding of the workings of the media […]
