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 […]
Critical thinker explains skepticism vs. cynicism
D.J. Grothe explores the difference between skepticism and cynicism in an interview with Peter M. Nardi in Miller McCune magazine, and describes […]
What’s happened to sabbatical leave for academics?
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In 1931 Arthur Currie, the principal of McGill […]
The new language of sociology: teaching-and-learning
Institutionalised sociology begins in the classroom. The classroom is the principal site in which sociologists communicate with non-sociologists or – idealistically – future sociologists about the ethos and knowledge of the discipline.
The glum future of the American liberal arts college
In a recent article for Miller-McCune Magazine, “‘Wither’ The Liberal Arts College?”, English professor Anne Trubek discusses the troubled state of American liberal […]
My social science career: Interview with Sonia Livingstone
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, socialsciencespace talks to Sonia Livingstone, Professor in Media and Communications […]
Duncan queries logic of UK Government research cuts
Social Policy Association (SPA) President and former Chief Government Social Researcher Sue Duncan has warned that the UK government risks sacrificing a […]
‘Rick Perry’s anti-science America’
Paul Stoller considers the implications of ‘anti-science’ political candidates being elected to high office in the US and the likely impact on […]
‘In defence of public higher education’
An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed reforms to […]
