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Where are the social scientists?

An article of this title by Mark Patterson has just been published in the University World News. Concerned with the South African context, it argues a kind of ‘frontline’ position about social science research. Read it here. Agree? Disagree? Provide a comment and let us know.

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Liz Stanley

Liz Stanley is Professor of Sociology @ University of Edinburgh, email liz.stanley@ed.ac.uk. I’m a feminist sociologist who works on everyday documents of life, particularly letters, to research social change over time.

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