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 […]
New Year Honours List Includes Number of Social Scientists
A social anthropologist who works to create a globally sustainable future and a geographer who until recently headed the Economic and Social Research Council were among a number of British citizens cited for “service to social science” in Queen Elizabeth’s just-released New Year Honours lists.
New Podcast: Nadine Kammerlander on How Shared Stories Impact Family Firm Innovation
In the latest podcast from Family Business Review, assistant editor Karen Vinton and author Nadien Kammerlander discuss the article, “The Impact of […]
Universities in War Zones Can Recover From Their Wounds
High education is usually one of the first casualties when a country is at war. Rebuilding — or even defining what rebuilding means — quite often is far from the first priority when the shooting stops.
Happy New Year from Management INK!
To celebrate winter on this New Year’s Eve, here is a collection of beautiful, winter-themed art: Pancake Tuesday (Maslenista) by Boris Mikhaylovich […]
Book Review: The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making
Derek Wall praises ‘The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making,’ Christopher Shaw’s exploration of environmental policymaking. The book focuses on the public circulation of 2°C as the widely cited maximum figure by which temperatures can be allowed to rise.
This Year in Review: The Top 5 Management INK Posts from 2015
As the year comes to an end, we’d like to celebrate by taking a look back at some of the most popular […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Louise Thompson
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Louise Thompson who examines how great it would be if we could all play a bigger part in making changes to laws before they come into force, rather than just complaining about them afterwards
Computers Broke It. Computers Can Fix It
Computers have revolutionized academic research – and at the same time created a new crop of problems. But, suggests Ben Marwick, computers can also help address some of the challenges they have created.
