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Out Now - SRHE News Issue 34 -October 2018

Extract from editorial

Fake Research and Trust in the Social Sciences

In 1996 physics professor Alan Sokal (New York/UCL) submitted a hoax article to Social Text, a postmodern cultural studies journal. 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' argued nonsensically that quantum gravity was a social and linguistic construct.

The journal did not at that time practise peer review and the article was not submitted for expert consideration by any physicist. Sokal revealed his hoax on the day of publication and it was understandably seized on by conservative science academics as evidence that some social science academics are predisposed to accept arguments that fit their ideological preferences...

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Higher Education Statistics Agency 2015-16 Data

Below are links to HESA datasets provided to SRHE in February/March 2017. This data in relation to UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is broken down by age group, gender, ethnicity, disability status, level of study, mode of study, etc. We hope they will be useful to any of members and guests currently engaged in research.

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1. Students in Higher Education Institutions 2015/16
2. Staff in Higher Education Institutions 2015/16
3. Finances of Higher Education Institutions 2015/16