Hamish Robertson, Joanne Travaglia and Nick Nicholas Current attitudes towards ‘big data’ are quite mixed including positive, negative and various kinds [...]
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Elites and their teachers
Saskia Papadakis In October 2017, David Lammy MP accused Oxford and Cambridge, England’s oldest and most prestigious universities, of ‘social apartheid’. [...]
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Universal basic income: pipedream or a real possibility?
Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley During a recent Guardian newspaper podcast on the idea of a universal basic income, one of [...]
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Does Brexit Mean Brexit?
Graham Taylor In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum Teresa May, tried to calm the concerns of anxious Leave supporters [...]
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Solidarity in the Neoliberal University? Acts of Kindness and the Ethics of Care During the UCU Pensions Dispute
Sarah Burton and Vikki Turbine Who gets to have, and give, solidarity in the neoliberal university? Is solidarity even possible in [...]
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Vice-chancellors should start planning their climb-down strategies
David Bartram The UCU is well on its way to winning the pensions dispute. The flaws in the “deficit” story are [...]
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Focus: Postsocialism and whiteness – why the Yugoslav region was never outside ‘race’
Catherine Baker Race has worked its way into national identities around the globe except, as most studies of postsocialist Europe until [...]
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Viewpoint: The political theory of enlightened isolationism, or, in muted praise of Jeremy Corbyn
Charles Turner Many on the right of the Tory party fear that Jeremy Corbyn may be about to slip into Number [...]
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On the Frontline: Ethnography in a time of neoliberalised learning and teaching
Daniel Briggs As we return to the square in Valdmingómez, we see a man with his sleeve rolled up next to [...]
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Policy & Politics: The inefficiency of using management consultants in public sector organisations, the case of the NHS
Ian Kirkpatrick, Andrew Sturdy and Gianluca Veronesi This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy & Politics. [...]
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