Expert Comment
What makes a successful University? Defining Success in Higher Education
One of the keynote events of the Festival of Social Sciences was 'Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities'. Here Warwick University Registrar John Baldwin tackles the key question 'What makes a successful University? Defining Success in Higher Education'.
Great Minds Work Together
Dr Peter Hedges, Director of Research Support Services explains the process behind the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and highlights the benefits they hold both both the University and the partner businesses.
Why So Few Ethnographies?
"Ethnography is one of the standard research tools used by academics in the social sciences and humanities nowadays. Surprising then that academia often seems remarkably under-studied in ethnographic terms."
On Offices - Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nigel Thrift
"I am writing this blog in a cramped study at home, cramped because it is full of piles of books and paper. The room is my ‘real research’ office as opposed to my office in work where I would never dream of writing anything, except maybe a few letters."
As Books Disappear - Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nigel Thrift
The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nigel Thrift, muses on the death of the book and changing reading habits.