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Category Archives: university
Les Back on the PhD Viva
One of my favourite books is Les Back’s open access Academic Diary. I’ve posted some links to it before. Les’ book is a collection of short pieces about various aspects of academic life. This week I examined a PhD thesis, … Continue reading
The history (and future) of sociology at Goldsmiths
As part of their 50th anniversary celebrations the sociology department at Goldsmiths have been posting various items about their history. They have just posted this really interesting exchange on the history if the department. The exchange involves a range of … Continue reading
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Tagged goldsmiths, history, Sociology
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New blog for Sociology at York
A little while ago my department set up a blog, this has now been replaced with a redesigned and updated site. It can be accessed here. The new site contains information about the sociology department at York, with information on … Continue reading
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Social Science Research Questions & Methodological Challenges in the 21st Century
The University of Sheffield are hosting a seminar series over the coming months on the topic of ‘Social Science Research Questions and Methodological Challenges in the 21st Century’. The seminars will take place in the ICOSS building and are being … Continue reading
A third review of Punk Sociology
It’s been great to see people using blogs and the like to respond to Punk Sociology. A third review has just been published on Tracey Yeadon-Lee’s blog (I posted about the previous two reviews here and here). I understand that a … Continue reading
The risks of academic blogging
On his blog Sam Burgum provides some thoughts about the risks of academic blogging. I’ve posted a quite few times in the past about academic blogging, but Sam focuses here on his experiences of using his blog. These experiences include … Continue reading
Predicting the future success of researchers and their research…academic moneyball
A bit of a scary article on the LSE Impact blog. It is a piece about using various metrics to predict which academics will achieve future success, and also to predict which journal articles will be most successful. The idea … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, infrastructures, metrics, university, visualisation
Tagged Academic moneyball, prediction, research
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Punk Sociology…hardback and discount
I’ve just received my author copies of Punk Sociology. It’s really nice to see it. The discount I posted about the other day is now live, so the hardback version is available at half-price for a few days. The details … Continue reading
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Researching code/coding research(ers)
In this blog post for the ‘Code Acts in Education’ initiative Ben Williamson offers some reflections on how algorithms and code are shaping research practices, outcomes and dissemination. Ben provides an overview of some of the literature in this area … Continue reading
Punk Sociology…50% discount
I posted previously about the recent publication of my Punk Sociology book. To mark 12 weeks since I submitted the manuscript, the publishers are offering a 50% discount on the hardback. This offer is only available for 7 days. The … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, fiction, future of sociology, history of sociology, metrics, music, university, writing
Tagged book, discount, flyer, Punk sociology
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