Who Cares for Academics?
In this blog, Eda Ulus and Charlotte Smith ask us to think about academics and whether they are allowed to express emotion. What would you think if I suddenly started crying? How would you respond? These are questions that Eda asks students, to introduce a lecture on emotions in working life. […]
Conference World and the Avoidance of Thought
Having just returned from another major international conference, Professor Martin Parker is coming to suspect that they’re rarely worth the fuss At the beginning of August, what must surely be the largest social science conference on the planet met in the glassy towers of Vancouver, Canada. Over ten thousand delegates occupied a convention centre as […]
Acting the Academic
Deputy Head of School, Angus Cameron, reflects upon one of the stranger tasks he has been asked to perform: being a central character in a murder mystery novel. Working as an academic often involves slipping between identities. The person at the front of the lecture theatre is not quite the same person that inhabits the […]
Should Social Scientific Debate occur outside Academic Journals?
Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption at the School, Stephen Dunne, attempts to renew a recent academic argument through a more accessible medium Social scientists engage in debates which matter to people other than themselves. Very often, however, those potentially publicly meaningful debates preside within academic journals which regularly assume a lot of terminological familiarity and disposable […]
Did you hear the one about the Anarchist Manager?
Thomas Swann and Konstantin Stoborod, Graduate Teaching Assistants at the School, reflect on their 2 year effort to bring Anarchist Practices and Management Studies together The 3rd Anarchist Studies Network conference took place between the 3rd and the 5th of September, at that network’s home, Loughborough University. As with the 2nd ASN conference two years […]
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