methods@manchester is an initiative funded by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester. It aims to: highlight Manchester’s strength in research methods […]
Future Internet = Future Democracy –> Open Web Division of The Civic Media Institute http://www.cmiarts.org
Today was the Brown Bag Speaker Series topic The Future of the Internet: Concepts. Multimedia slides only: http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/slides.html Recorded Presentation: http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/ Let […]
I’m a member of a university (the University of Southampton) which forces its budding social scientists through two courses in statistics. This […]
Great British Library exhibition. Census and Society : Census & Society: why everyone counts The British census is due to take place […]
The UK Campaign for the Public University is a broadly based campaign initiated by a group of university teachers and graduate students […]
The Nuffield Foundation is a charitable trust established in 1943 by William Morris, Lord Nuffield, the founder of Morris Motors. We work […]
This blog has been created to offer social scientists the opportunity to hold IRBs and University Research Ethics committees accountable for their […]
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
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.
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
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 […]
