The Sense of Touch for Archaeological Knowing
In this post, Dr Kevin Pijpers discusses his recently completed doctoral research on how archaeologists use their senses, in particular their sense of touch and the relationship between archaeological touch and the making of knowledge. As part of my PhD research, I joined archaeologists of the University of Leicester and the University of […]
Incentives alone won’t bring gender equality
Doris Ruth Eikhof*, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, underlines why there’s so much more to the problem of gender inequality than the task of getting the incentives right Those concerned about gender inequality have recently been given cause for optimism. Research in economics, according to Tyler Cowen’s New York Times upshot […]
Weber, Tolstoj and the Usefulness of Universities
Doris Ruth Eikhof, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, shares some earlier* thoughts on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) In the past two years UK universities have frantically prepared their submissions to the sector-wide assessment of their research prowess and output, the Research Excellence Framework, or REF. They have evaluated research outputs, written […]
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