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18.04.2019 Rob Boddice

What Is the History of Experience?

Revolution, modernity, bourgeois society, our own era of globalization – these cannot just be imposed by an economic system, a political structure, or a discursive web of representations, whether textual or, for that matter, visual. They must be […]

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22.03.2019 Jo Shaw

Why would any academic EU lawyer write about Brexit?

It might also be said that it’s a crowded field, and there’s not too much new that can be said about it, even though there seems to be a fresh political car crash each day. This seems like a […]

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20.03.2019 Mianna Meskus

The value of patients in medical research: Finnish experiences

Collecting, depositing and reusing human-derived material on mass scale entails the problem that the relationship between the physician-scientist and the patient-donor becomes ever more distant and superficial. Meanwhile, informed consent may begin to seem too restrictive and cumbersome a practice […]

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21.01.2019 Cherry Miller

Feminist Politics and Populism: Positioning Gender in Populism Studies

Despite a growth in populism studies, overall, it has been suggested that gender has arguably been marginalised in this research. As 2019 commences, it is indeed timely to reflect on the empirical and theoretical performativity of populism – that is […]

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20.12.2018 Salla Atkins

What constitutes evidence for policy? New Social Research seminar series

But what constitutes evidence? How should it be packaged? How do researchers communicate their findings so that they are correctly interpreted and how do we ensure that policymakers understand our findings? Research is not – and should not be – […]

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20.12.2018 Elina I. Mäkinen

Early Career Researchers Form a New Academic Society in Support of Interdisciplinary Research and Careers

Universities, research institutes, funders, and governments emphasize the benefits of interdisciplinary knowledge creation as it is seen as a strategy for increasing innovation and creating new solutions to old problems (Boix Mansilla 2006; Jacobs and Frickel 2009). The rhetoric of […]

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03.12.2018 Rômulo Lima

Bolsonaro and the rise of Far-Right Neoliberalism in Brazil

One year ago, in November 2017, Jair Bolsonaro was no big reason to be concerned with. Michel Temer, the former vice-president of Dilma Rousseff who took over the presidency after her impeachment in 2016, was still unfolding a series of […]

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28.11.2018 Rebecca Lund

It’s about values, not women: Changing the scripts, content and process of leadership in the academy

One of the concerns people express about the neoliberal academy is that you either perform it or contest it. It’s a very limited amount of options that are on offer. I think that’s where we need to place our attention. […]

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23.11.2018 Jurgen De Wispelaere, Antti Halmetoja and Ville-Veikko Pulkka

The Finnish Basic Income Experiment — Correcting the Narrative

The last few months have been unkind to basic income experiments. In Ontario, the newly elected Provincial Government reneged on its promises and on 31 July unceremoniously announced the experiment would be cancelled. The fallout in Ontario is considerable and […]

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13.11.2018 Marianne Mäkelin

Charting a posthuman approach to bioethics

Recent developments in biology, for example, now enable gene modification in unprecedented precision and low cost. This has created calls for bioethicists and social scientists to join the discussion on how these new technologies should or should not be used. […]