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Congressional Briefing on social surveys and statistics (American Academy of Political and Social Science)
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
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
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
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!
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
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?
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.
Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge
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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