Archive for May, 2009



NATIONAL STRATEGIC DIRECTOR FOR e-SOCIAL SCIENCE BACKGROUND The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) wishes to appoint a Director to lead the development of a co-ordinated national e-social science strategy. This is a key strategic leadership role which will involve working to develop a coherent inter-agency approach, which draws upon various national and international e-social [...]

Revelations about MP expense claims are still unfolding, but proposals for reform are already emerging. One proposal places particular emphasis on the role of networked individuals to hold the MP’s accountable for their claims. The idea is to immediately put every claim made to the Commons fee office on the Web (The Sunday Times, 17 [...]

The OII’s Voices from Oxford (VfO) initiative has received excellent coverage in The Korea Times in an article by Kang Shin-who, based on an interview with Dr Kim Sung-hee, Director of VfO and Professor Denis Noble, our VfO anchor and editor, who was in Korea to attend a conference in his role as President of [...]