This is the first of a new occasional series of ‘Research Bytes’ podcasts – looking very briefly at a cross section of research projects in an academic institution. In this podcast we talk to six academics from Goldsmiths, University of…
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If you think governments and corporations have shown themselves to be untrustworthy stewards of the internet, you might want to go along to the CryptoFestival 2013 on 30 November at Goldsmiths, University of London. The festival (a major event, that…
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Talk to any politician – of whatever party – and they will tell you their polling suggests that being tough on welfare recipients is popular with the public. So what do we consider to be ‘poverty’? What do we think…
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The medicalisation of disease means that lots of time and money is spent on researching the effectiveness of pharmaceutical options, but very little attention is directed at researching non medical interventions such as exercise and healthy eating. When LSE’s Huseyin…
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‘The language of equality is being lost to public discourse,’ according to a new report from ROTA a social policy organisation focused on issues that affect Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities The report, which is being published as a…
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As the UK’s 2015 election campaign gets going, immigration is taking centre stage. It is likely to be a heated debate informed by what Scott Blinder has called “imagined immigration” because the public consistently overestimates the numbers of people coming…
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Nic Dawes [@NicDawes] (until last month editor of South Africa’s Mail and Guardian newspaper) has a formidable reputation as an investigative journalist and campaigner for press freedom. His last 2 years at the Mail and Guardian have been marked by…
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If you want to find the latest social science research, check out Discover Society, the new free digital magazine that showcases social science research and ideas. The editors, John Holmwood and Sue Scott, developed the idea as a digital version…
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Are you sick of the overheated, braying politics of Westminster, where there is a lot of heat, but not much light? What’s the alternative? Try this: A rational parliament would be ruled by free thinking and would respect the balance…
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Federica di Lascio writes: NATCEN [the National Centre for Social Research, UK] recently held a panel focusing on the relationship between flexible working and work-life balance. It was chaired by Dalia Ben-Galim, Associate Director of IPPR. Starting from some recent…
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