Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
How Does Sociology Feel?
Just as it is insufficiently recognised in public debates, the emotional side of forced flexibility in academic labour does not appear to be a major topic of conversation among established sociologists
Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?
There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?
Job Search 2.0: Breaking the Silence
If we don’t discuss the job search as anything more than a painful memory, we add to the mystique of gaining academic employment, isolating ourselves in the process.
Can We Make College Cheaper?
The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.
The Myths of Offender Profiling
Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.
To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.
So what exactly are the rules by which academic careers work? Where does one learn them? How does one learn them? And how, exactly, is playing by the rules to the benefit of one’s career?
Balancing Independence with Support
How much autonomy do we have as Early Career Researchers?
