My blog: End of an era or new beginning?
June 20, 2025
This week I got an email from the University of Nottingham which made me quite sad: “I am contacting you as you are listed as a user on a blog on the blogs.nottingham.ac.uk site. The university will stop hosting the site from the end of December 2025. It is now home to a very small …
Knitting with hyperlinks: A decade of blogging
February 3, 2023
Ten years ago, I was walking down the corridor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy building, when I bumped into Adrian Mateo, who was then Faculty marketing manager. I knew him from various engagement events related to projects I was involved in at the time. We chatted a bit and he suddenly asked …
Academic jargon in the social sciences: self-indulgence or necessary evil?
May 22, 2014
The highly ambitious Circling the Square conference has just finished here at the Institute for Science and Society. It successfully brought together people from a wide range of disciplines around what we often describe as the science-policy interface. To get a flavour, why not check out the very active Twitter hashtag. My main impression from …
The end of journals? Open access, impact and the production of knowledge
December 6, 2012
Under direction from the government, there is a drive to make publicly funded research open access; that is, if you go to the website where the journal article resides, non-subscribers will not be met by a page asking you to part with $30+ for the privilege of reading. Research articles will be free to read….but …
Making Thoughts Public
February 14, 2012
After writing my first blog post a week or so ago, I was sitting on the bus chatting to the daughter of a very old acquaintance of mine, a now retired lecturer in French, for whom I did a module once a long time ago after I had arrived in Nottingham at the beginning of …
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