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Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 16, 2013

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

Also posted in Featured, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate | Tagged Daniel Kahneman, David Edmonds, Interview, Nigel Warburton, podcast, social science, Social Science Bites, Steven Pinker, Ziyad Marar | Leave a comment

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 Academic Funding, Impact, International Debate, 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 Academic Funding, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, 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 Academic Funding, Featured, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Policy, Research Methods | Tagged data, Digital Data, Federal Funding, Funding, quantitative research, social science, statistics, Surveys | 2 Comments

Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 1, 2013

The latest episode of Social Science Bites is an interview with Lawrence Sherman, Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University and a keen advocate of experimental criminology.

Also posted in Audio, Resources | Tagged crime, Criminology, Lawrence Sherman, podcast, social science | Leave a comment

Working Outside of Academia does Not Mean I Sold Out!

By Sarah-Louise Quinnell | Published: April 2, 2013

I have argued repeatedly that Social Scientists have a lot to offer sectors outside of the Ivory Tower and it is time we stopped associating this with negative words like failure and selling out.

Also posted in Early Career, Featured | Tagged alternative careers, early career, outside academia, rogue scholar | Leave a comment

Podcast: Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth

By Social Science Bites | Published: April 2, 2013

In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast sociologist Ann Oakley discusses her research into a range of questions about women's experience of childbirth.

Also posted in Audio, Impact, Interview, Research Ethics, Resources | Tagged Ann Oakley, Childbirth, Ethics, Interviews, Pregnancy, sociology, Women | 4 Comments

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 27, 2013

The Ivory Tower has been toppled and academia has an impact in the ‘real world’. The problem is that this may have come at the expense of truly innovative and critical scholarship.

Also posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News | Tagged Branding, British Sociological Association, BSA, education, Entreprenurial university, Ivory Tower, Matthew Goodwin, social science, sociology, The Guardian | 5 Comments

Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge

By Martin Eve | Published: March 25, 2013

Is OA the flip side to privatisation of Higher Education? Is there a way in which OA is a means of justifying the economic inaccessibility of HE by providing a public good?

Also posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Open Access | Tagged academic publishing, humanities, Martin Eve, neoliberalism, open access, Privatisation, privatization, Publishing, social science | 1 Comment

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