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

Stand Out and Be Counted: Quantitative Skills and Social Scientists

By British Academy | Published: May 2, 2013

The British Academy recently published a guide for students encouraging those studying the humanities and social sciences to become statistically savvy.

Also posted in Early Career, Higher Education Reform, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, News, Research Methods | Tagged business, ESRC, HEFCE, journalism, Politics, public sector, Quantitative skills, social science, statistics, The British Academy | 1 Comment

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

Also posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News | Tagged BCS/CSEW, British Crime Survey, crime, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Danny Dorling, financial crisis, inequality, Interpersonal violence, Police, Poverty, Property, recession | Leave a comment

The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 16, 2013

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

Also posted in News, Research Ethics | Tagged BBC, Craig Calhoun, Ethics, London School of Economics, LSE, Media, North Korea, Panorama, policy, Project Camelot, research, Social research, social science, social science research | 1 Comment

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 Academic Funding, Featured, International Debate, News | Tagged Campaign for Social Science, Congress, Funding, NIH, NSF | 1 Comment

Modernizing Universities?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 8, 2013

Universities are starting to look like the behemoths of the US auto industry of the 1980s, with highly-paid CEOs buried in their offices looking only at numbers.

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Tagged CEO, Corporatization, economics, employment, Funding, higher education, innovation, managerial, organizational management, social science, University management | 1 Comment

Will Social Science Research Cuts Affect the Human Rights Situation in the U.S.?

By Joseph Wronka | Published: March 20, 2013

On social science, the sequester, and the need for a Human Rights Culture.

Also posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, Public Engagement | Tagged American Association for the Advancement of Science, Convention on the Elimination Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Funding, human rights, Human Rights Culture, Joseph Wronka, National Science Foundation, NSF, research funding, social science, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 2 Comments

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