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Congressional Briefing on social surveys and statistics (American Academy of Political and Social Science)

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 7, 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.

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged business, policy, statistics, Surveys | Leave a comment

The Nonresponse Challenge to Surveys and Statistics

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 7, 2013

Survey researchers are increasingly unable to get people to respond to surveys. This is a real worry because nonresponse can lead to biased research and because nonresponse poses a significant threat to the federal statistical system in its entirety.

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research Ethics, Research Methods | Tagged American Community Survey, American National Election Study, data, Douglas S.Massey, National Health Interview Survey, National Survey of Family Growth, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, policy, Quantitative Methods, Roget Tourangeau, social science, statistics, Survey Methods, survey research, Survey Response, Surveys, U.S. Census | Leave a comment

Gathering Data for Policy Makers, Business and the Public

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 5, 2013

Federal surveys have been getting more expensive to administer, in part because the number of people who actually respond to surveys has been progressively declining.

Also posted in Featured, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research Methods | Tagged data, Digital Data, Federal Funding, Funding, quantitative research, social science, statistics, Surveys | 2 Comments

What Is the Value of Social Science?

By SAGE | Published: April 11, 2013

Ziyad Marar argues that greater funding of the social sciences is needed, not less

Also posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Congress, Funding, NIH, NSF | 1 Comment

The Politics of Attacking Political Science

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: March 6, 2013

As a political scientist, I find it curious that my discipline has been singled out as being particularly wasteful of federal research dollars. How did we join welfare queens and spotted owls as convenient punching bags, things that must not be aided by taxpayer money during lean times?

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News | Tagged Doris Kearns Gooodwin, Eric Cantor, Flake Amendment, Funding, National Science Foundation, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, NSF, political science, social science, The Atlantic | 1 Comment

Why Study Social Science

By The Monkey Cage | Published: March 5, 2013

We study social science because social phenomena affect people’s lives in profound ways. If you want to start with Cantor’s focus—physical illness and death—then social phenomena are tremendously important.

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Tagged Eric Cantor, Funding, National Science Foundation, NIH, NSF, political science, social science, sociology, The Monkey Cage | 5 Comments

Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: February 27, 2013

“We are now in a situation where science, technology, engineering and maths – the STEM subjects – were about 15 to 20 years ago....there was a lack of public understanding of what they contributed to society and its development"

Also posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Campaign for Social Science Roadshow, Government, London Metropolitan University, Michael Harloe, Parliament, policy, social science, STEM subjects | 5 Comments

Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: February 18, 2013

There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?

Also posted in News, Public Policy | Tagged Funding, higher education, Postgraduates | Leave a comment

Can We Make College Cheaper?

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: February 15, 2013

The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.

Also posted in Early Career, Higher Education Reform | Tagged austerity, Class, Cost of College, Higher Education Reform, Research Costs, social science, State Funding, Tuition, tuition fees, university | Leave a comment

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