We want young scientists to develop a personal sense of wonder.
Any research that seeks to make positive interventions as well as produce ‘objective’ data, must foster new kinds of dialogue that support and engage those directly involved.
What sets public participation techniques apart from other ways for governments to know about citizens is the emphasis on deliberation between a small number of participants. Take fracking…
Discussions of volunteering in British health-care organisations rarely discuss the possible downside. But we need awkward outsiders.
Those few cold months camped outside St Pauls were a fragile attempt to create a political subject beyond the terrain of politics as usual.
Wanted: more insight into effective community organisation, particularly in the field of education and political economy education.
A man in detention in Britain is close to death having refused food and drink for over 80 days. The government’s response has been to issue an ‘end of life plan’. His death could be a death sentence for us all.
As long as the British debate about the EU is framed only in terms of the "national interest", a meaningful and nuanced discussion will be impossible. Stop using the term, “national interest”.
Two outsourcing giants who tagged and monitored ex-offenders charged British taxpayers tens of millions of pounds for doing nothing. A new report reveals flagrant and systematic abuses, ahead of executives' interrogation by Members of Parliament today.
International men's day risks being used as an argument against women's rights and feminism. But can it become a reminder of how dangerous masculinity can be for men as well as women? Or is even saying that problematic?
They may not be in fashion, but political parties provide useful structures for activists to organise through, says Adam Ramsay, and whether or not the goal of electing someone is an important aim, the process of doing so is a helpful one.
A posthumous collection of the writings by one of Scotland’s most distinguished advocates of independence, Stephen Maxwell, has just been published: ‘The Case for Left-Wing Nationalism’. It has been edited by Jamie Maxwell and is published by Luath Press and has been introduced by Tom Nairn.
