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Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 13, 2017

How well do sociology departments in the UK teach sociology that originated in the UK? Asking that surprisingly hard question may produce usable insights for academic Britain, argues our Robert Dingwall.

Posted in Brexit, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Research, Science & Social Science, Teaching | Also tagged Economics, Inequality, Social Science, Sociology | Leave a comment

The Scottish Referendum: Social Science and National Identity

By Robert Dingwall | Published: September 29, 2014

As the independence vote moves from all-consuming question to historical incident, what are the lessons that Scottish universities and in particular Scottish social scientists should take away?

Posted in International Debate, News, Science & Social Science, Teaching | Also tagged Higher Education, Humanities, Policy, Scotland, Social Science | 4 Responses

140 Thoughtless Characters Cost Dear in Academia

By Social Science Space | Published: August 30, 2013

The censuring of an academic in the US for sending out an offensive tweet has led many university tweeters to pause for thought.

Posted in International Debate, News | Also tagged Academia, Higher Education, Twitter | Leave a comment

Living Death in the Academy

By David Canter | Published: July 12, 2013

David Canter reveals the plague that is infecting education.

Posted in International Debate | Also tagged Academia, Bureaucratization, Higher Education, reform, students, Undead, University | 1 Response

Universities for the Post-Democratic Age

By Daniel Nehring | Published: June 23, 2013

Critical scholarship and intellectual dissent are currently being closed down in favour of a model of academic life that accords scholars a limited role as purveyors of practically useful skills in ‘real-world’ labour markets.

‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

By Camille Gamboa | Published: June 17, 2013

A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

How can textbooks further student engagement?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: January 27, 2013

All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.

And Then There Were No Books

By Daniel Nehring | Published: December 23, 2012

When the customs agent started to smile, I knew that things would go badly indeed. He told me that my books would not be allowed into the country, unless I paid a fine of 50 per cent of their current price (a lot of money, and more than I could possibly afford).

Posted in Featured, International Debate, Open Access | Also tagged Academia, OA, Open Access, Paywall, Social Science, Textbooks | 1 Response

I Have No Time to Think and Write

By Daniel Nehring | Published: October 3, 2012

The extent to which academics in different situations own their time appears to be closely associated with the distribution of privilege. In an academic world that is elitist one needs to acquire privileges in order to have time.

Posted in Career, Featured, International Debate | Also tagged Academic Job Search, Early Career, job, Politics of academic life, Writing | 2 Responses

Writing the North Atlantic Bubble, part 2

By Daniel Nehring | Published: September 14, 2012

Many sociology departments teach along conventionalist, Eurocentric lines. Nonetheless, a reformulation of the scope of the sociological curriculum seems to be slowly taking shape.

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News, Teaching | Also tagged International Sociology, Science of Sociology, Textbooks | Leave a comment

What Makes Sociology Textbooks Original?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: July 23, 2012

Currently, textbooks exist at the margins of the Sociology, summarising and recycling extant knowledge while fundamentally lacking in original contributions to sociological enquiry. This doesn't have to be.

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, Teaching | Also tagged Higher Education, Social Science, Sociology, Textbooks, Undergraduates, Writing | 1 Response

Textbook World

By Daniel Nehring | Published: June 30, 2012

Textbooks now play a crucial role in teaching in the social sciences. Their importance is mirrored by their abundance; there is an enormous variety of textbooks on the most commonly taught subjects. The rise of the ‘textbook industry’ is not necessarily a good thing, though.

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