The BSA Society of Health and Illness is now inviting nominations for the 2011 ‘Book of the Year’ prize. The deadline for […]
The Nuffield Foundation is now using socialsciencespace to publicize the organization’s grant programs and invite applications. Other relevant organizations are welcome to join […]
The UK Campaign for the Public University is a broadly based campaign initiated by a group of university teachers and graduate students […]
A new national commission has been announced by the American Academy of Arts and Science to boost teaching and research in the […]
“The State, Power, and Agency: Missing in Action in Institutional Theory?”, by Stewart Clegg of the University of Technology, Sydney, was one […]
A new report today from the Centre for Social Justice, a UK think-tank, is highly critical of the way that successive governments […]
Postal services in Scotland Scottish Affairs select Committee HC 669 1st report – Embedding sustainable development across Government, after the Secretary of […]
The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) will next week launch a major campaign to promote UK social science and raise its visibility […]
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 […]
