Uses and abuses of user research 1
Martin Bulmer is right to draw attention to the questionable quality of some participant research on disability issues ("Research by public could be 'unreliable'", December 16). I was involved in...
Martin Bulmer is right to draw attention to the questionable quality of some participant research on disability issues ("Research by public could be 'unreliable'", December 16). I was involved in...
The article on research by the public confuses a number of arguments made in relation to a range of research discussed at the Social Research Association conference that can be called participatory....
Following up on the report on the lack of funding for research in higher education ("HE research is ideas rich but cash poor", December 16), there is also a lack of opportunities for systematic...
Steve Fuller makes a cogent case for intelligent design theory, but not a scientific one ("Schools for the Enlightenment or epiphany?", December 23/30). His presupposition is a common belief in the...
I think it was Thomas Kuhn who commented that science education was a "dogmatic initiation into a pre-established tradition", which is probably as true today as it was 40 years ago. It would be nice...
That was a strange article by Steve Fuller. I find his view of science and education filtered by religious belief of little use or interest. It would be more at home in a church newsletter. Juan...
What is it with Sheffield Hallam University and management fads ("Vanquish the fatal five", December 23/30)? Having persuaded the Higher Education Funding Council for England a few years back to give...
There is something else that university managers are often responsible for, in addition to the five "fatal flaws" that Sheffield Hallam University researchers claim can ruin departments. They are...
A prepositional change in my piece on academic and other tenure (Opinion, December 16) seems to have made it appear that I "presently" have 75 postdocs. This is, of course, the lifetime number (at an...
I know that conspiracy theories are great fun, including Martin Taylor's (Letters, December 23/30). Better still, they are a distraction from the real argument, which in this case is the Royal...
The Association of University Teachers does not accept that academics should be employed on industry-style rolling contracts that abolish permanent lectureships ("End jobs for life culture", December...
Barbara Einhorn finds Anthony Glees's account of her arrest by the Stasi bizarre and untrue. reports Michael North In the winter of 1983, peace activist Barbara Einhorn was released from the...
Consumerism is making America sick - and not just physically, says Peter Whybrow, who believes the UK is displaying similar symptoms When I was a medical student in London in the 1960s, consumption...
How do you make the leap from writer of a PhD thesis to award-winning author of a page-turner? Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Rana Mitter reveals the possibilities and pitfalls The...
OUP says Richard Scholar is an author to watch. Mandy Garner meets him Modern languages may be languishing in universities, but for Richard Scholar they herald a bright future in publishing. Scholar...