Humanities

OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data
Open Access
April 22, 2014

OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data

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Measuring Impact Via Influence, Not Bank Balance
Impact
February 14, 2014

Measuring Impact Via Influence, Not Bank Balance

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The effect of reverse discrimination on the young
International Debate
November 27, 2013

The effect of reverse discrimination on the young

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Oh the humanities: Oxford graduates do well, but what about the rest?
Career
August 28, 2013

Oh the humanities: Oxford graduates do well, but what about the rest?

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The Humanities as Human Relations

The Humanities as Human Relations

Do the Humanities not have an intellectual basis as legitimate and rigorous as that of the natural and social sciences? And are not the Humanities in fact an essential part of higher education? Try considering the Humanities as a form of Human Relations.

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Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?

Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?

There is broad agreement is the desirability of wider access by readers to scholarly journal articles. There is less agreement on who these imagined readers might be.

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Save the Humanities—From Themselves

Save the Humanities—From Themselves

The humanities and social sciences in America could use a white knight, but instead they got a white elephant.

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Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge

Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge

Is OA the flip side to privatisation of Higher Education? Is there a way in which OA is a means of justifying the economic inaccessibility of HE by providing a public good?

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Antebellism: The Neoliberal Compromise of the Political

Antebellism: The Neoliberal Compromise of the Political

Why we need to pay closer attention to the President of Emory’s shocking comparison of University budget cuts with the three-fifths compromise, and what it says about America now, not then.

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Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

This is not a body of work that instructs us what to think – it invites us to ask the question that an ethnographer would ask: confronted with this scene, what is going on here?

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Objective truth, social ‘science’ and tennis balls

Objective truth, social ‘science’ and tennis balls

The entire purpose of social science is to apply disciplined, logical, and serious analysis to of all aspects of contemporary social life. Whether ‘scientific’ or not, this process of exploration is intrinsically valuable.

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Digital Social Science Vs Digital Humanities: Who does what & does it matter?

Digital Social Science Vs Digital Humanities: Who does what & does it matter?

In an era where Social Science is being asked to prove its relevance the development of a broad Digital research agenda could, in my opinion, should be the way forward.

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