Tag: Organizational Management

Modernizing Universities?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 8, 2013

Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.

Open Access – but not for authors

By Robert Dingwall | Published: May 23, 2012

Open Access to academic journal papers is a hot button issue. The UK government is in favour, along with major UK research funders and organizations representing university librarians and senior management. The European Commission supports the idea and some US stakeholders have also backed it. A bunch of idealistic scientists are promoting the cause. The […]

Posted in Academic Funding, Communication, Impact, News, Open Access, Public Policy | Also tagged Academic Publishing, Communication, Impact, library information, Open Access, Publishing, Social Science | 1 Response

The new language of sociology: Teaching and Learning, part 2

By Daniel Nehring | Published: November 25, 2011

“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude obnoxious person.” A former colleague of mine now teaches an undergraduate research methods course in a large sociology department at a New University. A major problem in this department is student attendance. Living far away, […]

Posted in Career, Communication, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, Science & Social Science, Teaching | Also tagged Education, Higher Education, management, Teaching, Well-being | 1 Response

Research ethics and the ‘News of the World’

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 11, 2011

I was going to write about last week’s decision by the UK Information Commissioner to force the University of East Anglia to release its climate change dataset, which has some worrying implications for the privacy of participants in many UK social research studies. However, it is hard to resist commenting on the scandal about the […]

Posted in Featured, Research Ethics | Also tagged Coalition, Ethics, Higher Education, Research, Social Research, Social Science Research | Leave a comment

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Modernizing Universities?

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Research ethics and the ‘News of the World’

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