This month’s installment of The Evidence kicks off Gloria Media’s annual equal pay campaign. Starting from November 8, the average French woman […]
Even in the 21st century, social class is a part of being British. We talk of living in a post-class era but, […]
As the U.S. presidential election approaches, news reports and social media feeds are increasingly filled with data from public opinion polls. How […]
UPDATE on JANUARY 23: Links to the Blueprint on the White House website have been removed and do not redirect to an […]
In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge explores rising levels of abuse directed towards women in politics, spotlighting research […]
The large language models, or LLMs, that underlie generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have an ethical challenge in how they parasitize freely available data.
Three years ago, on the heels of a Black Lives Matter Movement energized after the horror of George Floyd’s murder, the global academic publisher Sage partnered with the Black-owned Universal Write Publications (UWP).
In this month’s edition of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge explores reproductive rights after the end of Roe v Wade, highlighting research on the potentially unsafe methods used in self-managed abortions.
Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]
To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.
Drawing on discussions with academics who have oriented their work around public engagement and social impact, Daniel Pearson suggests these academics present an opportunity to rethink the existing structures of reward and recognition in higher education.
A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of ‘internet famous’ celebrities. And that new people has a class of […]
Xenotransplantation is a fascinating subject – for obvious reasons, as it involves transplanting organs or other body parts across species boundaries (in […]
Decisions taken now around how generative AI is used by academics and universities will shape the future of research. Mark Carrigan argues whilst optimistic scenarios are possible, generative AI stands ready to feed into an existing productivity oriented framing of academic work.
