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Social Sciences Need a Collective Voice

By Ziyad Marar | Published: September 19, 2013

Social science may be faring better politically in UK than US, says Ziyad Marar, but let's avoid complacency at all costs

Posted in Featured, International Debate | Also tagged Adam Afriyie, AERA, Coburn Amendment, COSSA, ESRC, FABBS, National Science Foundation, NSF, Social Science, SSRC, UK, US, What Works Centers | Leave a comment

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 27, 2013

The Ivory Tower has been toppled and academia has an impact in the ‘real world’. The problem is that this may have come at the expense of truly innovative and critical scholarship.

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Also tagged Branding, British Sociological Association, BSA, Education, Entreprenurial university, Ivory Tower, Matthew Goodwin, Social Science, Sociology | Leave a comment

Making Sense of Crime Trends

By Richard Garside | Published: March 15, 2013

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of 'crime'. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research | Also tagged British Crime Survey, Crime, Crime Rates, Crime Survey for England, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Criminology, Demography, Graphs, Homicide, Richard Garside, Robbery, Social Science, The Independent, The Times, Trends | 1 Response

Some thoughts on attitudes towards foreign students in the UK

By Daniel Nehring | Published: August 30, 2012

When I was a student, I had teachers who spoke about opportunities to study abroad in terms of things like the ability to widen one’s emotional and intellectual horizon.To today’s hardboiled politicians, journalists, and academic managers, these views must seem quaint and laughable.

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Also tagged Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Daily Mail, Higher Education, International Students, London Met, Migration Watch UK, public debate, UK Border Agency, UKBA, Xenophobia | Leave a comment

The Decline of Public Debates About Higher Education in Britain

By Daniel Nehring | Published: August 21, 2012

Just a few years ago, critical voices could still speak through mainstream media to highlight the dangers of the quickly accelerating commercialisation of academia. These commentators have now been pushed to the margins.

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Also tagged Big business, Britain, Carl Lygo, Commercialization, London Met, London Metropolitan University, Neoliberal, outsourcing, Privatisation, privatization, public debate, Social Science, University | Leave a comment

“The author has asked not to be identified in case this further affects his career prospects.”

By Daniel Nehring | Published: August 7, 2012

Many PhD graduates are forced into the troubled world of unemployment while, at the same time, being denied a public voice. How is it that extremely narrow standards of professional legitimacy are used to judge young scholars who simply cannot meet them?

Posted in Career, Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News, Teaching | Also tagged Corporatization, Early Career, getting a phd, Higher Education, Hireability, PhD, Politics of academic labour, Post-doc, Rationalization | Leave a comment

Have the Social Sciences Failed Us?

By andrewgamble | Published: May 22, 2012

On 16 April, Aditya Chakrabortty wrote an article for the Guardian's Comment is Free, arguing that social scientists have failed to step up and offer alternatives in the wake of the economic crisis. Here, Andrew Gamble FBA responds.

Posted in Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Aditya Chakrabortty, Andrew Gamble, British Academy, CRESC, CSGR, Economics, financial crisis, New Paradigms in Public Policy, Political Studies Association, Social Science, Sociology, SPERI | Leave a comment

What Do Higher Education Consumers Want?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 18, 2012

The Guardian yesterday published a set of worrying facts. Even though consumers of higher education pay almost three times as much in tuition fees than they did six years ago, face-to-face with lecturers in class has barely increased

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News, Teaching | Also tagged Commodification, consumerism, fees, Higher Education, Higher Education Reform, Jessica Sheperd, Social Science, Tuition | Leave a comment

Weekly Overview of Social Science News

By Lorna McConville | Published: April 10, 2012

Overcoming physics envy from the New York Times, How belief is the key to dealing with climate change skepticism from the Guardian, and much more in this big edition of Social Science News.

Posted in Communication, News, Research, Resources | Also tagged Humanities, New Orleans, Physics Envy, The New York Times | Leave a comment

The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins is completely wrong.

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 26, 2012

A response to Sir Simon Jenkins' article on the value of public universities.

Posted in Academic Funding, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Higher Education, Privatisation, Public Education, REF, Sir Simon Jenkins, Social Science, What are Universities for? | Leave a comment

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