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Big Qual - Why We Should Be Thinking Big About Qualitative Data for Research, Teaching and Policy

Big Qual - Why We Should Be Thinking Big About Qualitative Data for Research, Teaching and Policy

When social scientists think about big data, they often think in terms of quantitative number crunching. However, the growing availability of ‘big’ qualitative datasets presents new opportunities for qualitative research. 

UC Press Supports University of California's Stance on Elsevier

UC Press Supports University of California's Stance on Elsevier

As the publishing arm of the University of California system, UC Press supports the UC libraries in their cancellation of the Elsevier "big deal" package. As small to medium-sized publishers of largely humanities and social sciences (HSS) journals, university presses (including UC Press) have had to compete for diminishing library resources to support our publishing programs.

Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda

Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda

The idea of the conference is to bring to the fore the impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative national and European research and innovation agendas, as well as to openly reflect on and structurally discuss the topic. Due to the huge interest in the conference and limited seating, a live-streaming of the main sessions of the conference on both conference days is offered. 

Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process

Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process

Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. While these changes may generate some positive publicity for the company, they are likely to compound the real problem, further diminishing transparency and opportunities for independent oversight.

A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology

A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology

Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."

The Rise of the Trump Academic

The Rise of the Trump Academic

We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus beginning to emerge?