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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, Teaching | 2 Responses

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, Teaching, Textbooks, Undergraduates | 1 Response

Dumbing up

By David Canter | Published: April 24, 2012

The challenge of writing popular psychology came home to me recently when I accepted the invitation to write Forensic Psychology for Dummies

Does the way social scientists write stop them being heard?

By Social Science Space | Published: February 2, 2011

The commentator Nick Cohen argues in an article this week that many academics – specifically in social sciences and humanities – are unable to write clearly enough for their ideas to be understood. In ‘Academia plays into the hands of the right’, he contends that academics are ignored by the ‘ordinary world’ because of the ‘obscure theoretical’ terms they […]

Posted in Communication, Impact, International Debate | Also tagged Academia, language | 5 Responses

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