Kevin Gillan15 Dec 2015
Parliamentary Affairs has just published an interesting public lecture by Matthew Flinders, along with responses by Jack Corbett and Ian Marsh. The lecture brings together a whole host of complaints that have been targeted at advanced liberal democracies in trying to...
Kevin Gillan9 Oct 2015
10am – 2.30pm, 2nd November in the Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester. [map link] Researchers focused on politically contentious topics encounter ethical issues at every stage of research. This half-day workshop is designed to allow...
Kevin Gillan19 Jan 2015
Reblog: This post was first published by Kevin Gillan at Discover Society. See the original here. Among scholars of social movements there is presently a lively debate about the ethics of social research. While the topic of research ethics is rarely one that excites...
Kevin Gillan9 Dec 2014
Last week’s well-attended roundtable – Beyond Anti-Austerity? The Possibilities and Limits of Movements Resisting Neoliberalism – provided much interesting food for thought on a number of big questions facing contemporary movements of the left. What...
Kevin Gillan23 Oct 2014
The Possibilities and Limits of Movements Resisting Neoliberalism 3.30-5.30pm, 3rd December in the Arthur Lewis Boardroom, 2nd floor. All welcome, but please reserve a place via Eventbrite. The wave of protests instigated by the financial crisis in 2011 has already...
Kevin Gillan15 Jul 2014
The results of a recent psychology experiment on ‘emotional contagion’ last week were heavily reported in the mainstream media and, rather unusually, the discussion was focused on methodology and research ethics. The experiment involved manipulation of the ‘News Feed’...
