UCSB receives grant to study gangs Santa Barbara Independent SANParks offers’ Social Science bursaries By press release

UK newspapers have belatedly picked up on a troubling precedent that is crystallizing in the US courts. Boston College has been ordered to disclose recordings from an archive of interviews with former IRA members to the Police Service of Northern Ireland…

http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/social-science-sites-of-week_26.html 27th January is Holocaust memorial day To mark the occasion a new educational tool has been launched by University […]

The ability of people to keep their most desperate, innermost thoughts hidden from those around them is surely something that juries ought to be reminded of in cases where a death could be suicide or murder…

In the New York Times recently Paul Krugman described how academic economists grow up, and how blogging might change that….

Report suggests Medical Schools teach social and behavioral science, how universities can help students in the job market, and more: Articles from around the Web on the state of social science this week.

I’m taking a break from digital professionalism this month to consider an issue which is currently dominating PhD / Post Doc discussions on twitter – Career options for Post docs and where you fit Post PhD.

Review of Film policy final report “A Future for British Film – it begins with the audience”, Public Accounts Committee […]

King Center Digital Archive launched Fabulous full text digital library providing free access to thousands of items relating to the […]

Examining the impact of the Family Violence Option on women’s efforts to leave welfare (Research on Social Work Practice) Contracts in […]

Michael Higgins asks if there too many sociologists; the dimming line between the real and the virtual; and more: Articles from around the Web on the state of social science this week.

Compelling new evidence of a link between inequality and crime in England invites reconsideration of the individualistic ‘tough on crime’ stances of recent New Labour and Conservative governments