Social Science

The Branded Sociologist: Can We Still Be On Anyone’s Side?
International Debate
May 9, 2013

The Branded Sociologist: Can We Still Be On Anyone’s Side?

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The Nonresponse Challenge to Surveys and Statistics
Academic Funding
May 7, 2013

The Nonresponse Challenge to Surveys and Statistics

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Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public
Academic Funding
May 5, 2013

Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public

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Stand Out and Be Counted: Quantitative Skills
Career
May 2, 2013

Stand Out and Be Counted: Quantitative Skills

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Using Quantitative Skills in Research and Academia

Using Quantitative Skills in Research and Academia

Quantitative Skills (QS) can take you far in academia and the research world, giving you the keys to unpick complex phenomena and critically evaluate other studies. These Q&As with established professors, early career researchers and PhD students reveal the importance of QS within their diverse fields.

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Using Quantitative Skills in the Third Sector

Using Quantitative Skills in the Third Sector

Quantitative Skills (QS) give ‘empirical grit’ to the work of charities and third sector organisations. Here, Sharon Witherspoon, Director of the Nuffield Foundation and 2011 Winner of the British Academy President’s Medal and Aleks Collingwood, Programme Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explain how QS have been crucial to their careers.

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Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

The latest episode of Social Science Bites is an interview with Lawrence Sherman, professor of criminology at Cambridge University and a keen advocate of experimental criminology.

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The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

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Please – Not a Heroic Impact Narrative

Please – Not a Heroic Impact Narrative

Recently I’ve seen a lot of hero/heroine narratives. They now seem to be popping up in research impact plans and claims about impact.

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Modernizing Universities?

Modernizing Universities?

Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.

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Outlawed Research

Outlawed Research

Congress just cut funding for political science because they don’t understand the good it does. Here are four excellent examples.

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So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

The Ivory Tower has been toppled and academia has an impact in the ‘real world’. The problem is that this may have come at the expense of truly innovative and critical scholarship.

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