Emma Porio

Members of the International Science Council (ICSU) met in Auckland Convention Center for their tri-annual General Assembly and decided on the key directions of international science in the coming years. The theme of the 31st General Assembly was “A Celebration of 30 years of Global Change Research.” It endorsed a key statement on open access to the scientific record and cautioned against the misuse of metrics in the evaluation of research. Founded...

Right after the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology (2010) in Gothenburg, then newly elected Michael Burawoy constituted a subcommittee to know more about the status of early career sociologists in the ISA. The following is a summary of the results of a survey of ISA’s student members as well as of the report of the subcommittee presented at the Executive Committee meeting in Mexico City (March 23-25, 2011). Data Sources: The...