Transforming traditions into resources: pains and gains of Chinese scholars in the humanities and social sciences by Zhu, Y, Shen, Y

“…The asymmetrical global higher education and knowledge systems ordered by Euro–American hegemony have been increasingly interrogated, especially by scholars in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). …”

Isaac Vossius, Robert Hooke, and the early Royal Society’s use of sinology by Poole, W

“…This paper examines the engagement of the scholars Isaac Vossius and Robert Hooke with some sinological materials in the later seventeenth century. …”

Everyday practices of prepaid electricity in Maputo, Mozambique by Baptista, I

“…Urban scholars scrutinize the inequality and social controls imposed by prepayment on low-income citizens whose social life rests on a sense of provisionality and uncertainty. …”

Discussion Paper: Help! I'm an author - get me out of here by Rumsey, S

“…This discussion paper points out some current contradictions for authors publishing scholarly articles. It is based on comments from a number of Oxford academics including professorial research staff, researchers, and doctoral students. …”

Migration and development by de Haas, H

“…Such discursive shifts in the scholarly debate on migration and development should be primarily seen as part of more general paradigm shifts in social theory. …”

Migration and development: a theoretical perspective by de Haas, H

“…Such discursive shifts in the scholarly debate on migration and development should be primarily seen as part of more general paradigm shifts in social theory. …”

Choked by red tape? The political economy of wasteful trade barriers by Neary, P, Maggi, G, Mrázová, M

“…Red-tape barriers (RTBs) are an important source of trade costs, but have received little scholarly attention. Here we take a first step toward a theory of RTBs, and show that their implications are very different from those of more traditional trade barriers. …”

Work organisation and comparative historical statistics on the extent of the managerial hierarchy by Vernon, G

“…By the late 1990s such work was becoming cited in cross-national comparative analyses, with some scholars attracted by the apparent comprehensiveness and precision of the gauges of work organisation offered. …”

Opening access to research by Armstrong, M

“…Traditionally, the scholarly journal market operates so that research institutions are charged high prices and the wider public is often excluded altogether, while authors can usually publish for free and commercial publishers enjoy high profits. …”

Local economies, local wealth, and economic perceptions by Ansell, B, Cansunar, A

“…Whether voters can correctly perceive their district's economic reality and the origins of these perceptions, however, have not received much attention from scholars. This article develops a theoretical argument linking the local economy and household affluence to perceptions. …”

Incorporating traditional Chinese knowledge in research: The case of Chinese humanities and social sciences by Shen, Y, Zhu, Y

“…Through conducting interviews, this study provides an overview of contemporary Chinese HSS scholars’ attempts to integrate Western and traditional Chinese knowledge into their research. …”

Multidimensional poverty measures from an information theory perspective by Lugo, M, Maasoumi, E

“…Based on the idea of the essentiality of some attributes, scholars have recently suggested multidimensional poverty indices where the existence of a trade-off between attributes is relevant only for individuals who are below a poverty threshold in all of them. …”

ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Disciplines 2016: engineering by Cai Liu, N

“…Secondly, academic disciplines are important in determining the intellectual and scholarly identity of academics. Thirdly, and particularly relevant in the context of rankings, is that there is hardly an institution which can claim to perform equally well in all academic disciplines. …”

From your house to their House? Representation, political rhetoric and housing markets by Ansell, B, Bokobza, L, Nyrup, J

“…In the last decades, advanced industrial democracies have seen a rapid, yet unequal, surge in housing prices. While scholars have examined whether house prices shape the political behaviour of voters, we know little about how they change politicians’ stances on housing policy. …”

Radical climate policies by van der Ploeg, F, Venables, AJ

“…Our proposals offer a complementary perspective to scholars that have emphasised insights from the literature on early warning signals to advocate sensitive intervention points to get more effective and more transformative climate policies.…”

Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development: insights from development studies by Park, AS

“…Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience-oriented journal articles from 2017–22, it uses Kuhnian paradigms to analyse development knowledge production. …”

The differential role of social networks: strategies and routes in Brazilian migration to Portugal and the Netherlands by van Meeteren, M, Pereira, S

“…Our findings demonstrate that migration scholars need to move beyond the narrow conceptualisation of social networks based on community or kin relationships, to consider multiple configurations involving different agents – both in the origin and destination countries – at different stages of the migration process. …”

The bounded opportunities of digital enterprises in global economic peripheries by Friederici, N, Graham, M

“…Based on these findings, we theorize that digital products with the greatest global scaling potential are the least likely to be owned and controlled by digital enterprises located in economic peripheries. We thus encourage scholars of digital enterprise to more carefully take geographical variation into account, and acknowledge technological drivers of increasing unevenness in the global digital economy…”

Influences on and dimensions of English university governing body roles by Wheaton, A

“…Yet, the English regulatory regime re-enforces their role(s). Scholars have identified trends towards boardism along with the corporatization and laicization of university governance. …”

Hegemonic ideas are not always right: on the definition of 'internationalisation' of higher education by Marginson, S

“…The purpose of shaping practice crowds out the scholarly mission to understand and explain, while its universalism conceals ambiguities that weaken the purchase on practice. …”