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 […]
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee met with prominent UK social scientists last week to discuss the potential impact of […]
This summer, I have been reading one of the most impressive ethnographies that I have seen for a long time: Playing on […]
Ben Zimmer writes in the New York Times about Twitter’s appeal to social scientists who are looking for real-time language data and […]
There are a number of different ways in which social media can be used in academic research and researcher development. Different applications […]
During and following the Academy’s conference on the Riots of summer 2011, the speakers were all asked for their thoughts on where […]
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In 1931 Arthur Currie, the principal of McGill […]
In a recent article in Miller-McCune Magazine, Tom Jacobs discusses new research that explains how feelings of boredom can both strengthen solidarity […]
Over the last decade the hallowed principle of ‘evidence-based policy-making’ has become cliché in government and policy circles in the UK, and […]