public social science – Mark Carrigan

Political science, epistemic snobbery and the Corbyn problem

My notes on Allen, P. (2019). Political science, punditry, and the Corbyn problem. British Politics. There has been a widespread failure by political scientists to predict, explain or account for Jeremy Corbyn’s rise and the emergence of Corbynism as a political movement. What explains political science’s Corbyn problem? In this […]

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Escaping the Impact Machine: a sociological boardgame #TSRBoardGame

So you want to be a publicly engaged academic? It’s an exciting time for doing public social science but to make it work you have to avoid the trap of the impact machine and the social media machine. Don’t get caught in their tendrils! This board game charts your progress towards your ambition, […]

Estimated reading time: 1 minute