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Using Quantitative Skills in Journalism
By British Academy | Published May 1st, 2013

Quantitative Skills can give you an edge and enable you to source stories from within data sets and critically engage with ‘evidence’ from politicians! Find out more from the Guardian DataBlog Editor and a BBC Business Reporter.

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The Myth of Academic Stardom
By Daniel Nehring | Published May 14th, 2013

The recent and on-going reforms of higher education are enforcing an individualisation of academic labour. That academics would gamely play along with such a system is astonishing.

Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!
By Social Science Bites | Published May 16th, 2013

SAGE’s Global Publishing Director, Ziyad Marar talks with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about the one year anniversary of Social Science Bites.

Congressional Briefing on social surveys and statistics (American Academy of Pol
By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published May 7th, 2013

Last month The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) put together a Congressional Briefing on the impact of falling response rates to social surveys and what can be done about it.

Weekly Overview of Social Science News
By Lorna McConville | Published March 28th, 2013

Social Science in the National interest, U.S. Congress cuts Social Science out of NSF Funding, and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News

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Stephen M. Kosslyn,
Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University

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