Originally posted to the SAGE Connection blog Last week was the ESRC’s annual festival of social science. This is the third year […]
Public Administration Committee – Fifteenth Report Smaller Government: What do Ministers do? Further Report HC 1540 East Midlands Regional Committee – Eighth […]
This week is the ESRC festival of social science To mark the occasion. Making the case for the social sciences: Sport and […]
New weekly round up of the latest official reports online from Uk government. Skills for a green economy Department for Business, Innovation […]
Here is the latest round of new and interestign social science sites This week is open access Week To celebrate this ALISS […]
So the Governor of your state just publicly attacked your college major and declared it useless; what do you do? Well, if […]
Paul Stoller considers the implications of ‘anti-science’ political candidates being elected to high office in the US and the likely impact on […]
Gary Gutting explores the science of happiness in a blog-post for the New York Times, and looks at the data on correlations […]
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 […]
