Rosalind Edwards and Pamela Ugwudike discuss how the increased use of linked social data and predictive machine learning is changing the state’s relationship to families, from the here and now to an anticipated future and from one grounded in a sociolo…
For journals: Benefits of our Private for Peer Review mode
Many journals rely on Dryad to publish data connected to research articles. We make it simple for editors to ensure underlying data is accessible through submission and peer review with Private for Peer Review. With this functionality, at the poi…
Building Institutional Memory for Research Projects – Why education is key to long-term change
Research Impact, especially as conceptualised in the Research Excellence Framework, is often seen as bounded within a clearly defined project timeframe. In this post, Ryan Nolan, discusses how the National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Research (N…
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Racism and classism in elite universities are deliberate mechanisms used to maintain privilege
Racist and classist mechanisms within higher education are often presented as abstract intangible processes that produce unequal outcomes for those attending university from non-traditional backgrounds. Drawing on evidence from their new book, Kalwant …
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Data We Love – Day 5
February 17, 2023
by Hannah Frost
Digital library
Digital preservation
Preservation
Stanford Digital Repository
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What are social structural explanations?
Social structures are often invoked as the cause of various problems in society. In this post, Lauren N. Ross discusses how social structural causes can be understood as constraints and why clarity on this point is not just a problem of definition, but…