Education research will inevitably have a rollercoaster relationship with policy. If our job as researchers is to speak the truth […]

Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) […]

Slides from the ALISS summer conference: ESDS policy studies relating to children & health The Economic and Social Data Service: […]

Slides from the ALISS summer conference: Changing nature of scholarly communication The changing nature of scholarly communication. What does this […]

Slides from the ALISS summer conference: Social Care TV Social Care TV: case study of LGBT evidence View more presentations […]

This is an extract from a post originally published  in Harvard Magazine. Across all the disciplines of the social sciences—economics, history, […]

The 2010 World Social Science Report (WSSR) produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published by UNESCO was […]

Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and […]

Psychology is not just a science in its own right, but makes important direct and indirect contributions to other Science, […]

The life sciences have made major contributions to our knowledge and understanding, but utilising that knowledge for maximum benefit often […]

“Saving Social Security will be relatively easy. Managing its impact on the federal budget will be daunting.” Read the article, […]

This podcast was recorded by the LSE as part of their series, Thinking like a Social Scientist. Risk, ethics and […]