Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Webinar: Innovations in Disseminating Psychological Science
Earlier this month Aime Ballard-Wood, director of publications for the Association for Psychological Science, discussed recent efforts for heightened dissemination of psychological […]
The Devil’s Bargain of Massive Online Learning
Technology may bring efficiencies to higher education, argues David Glance, but only if the expectations of both the suppliers and consumers fundamentally change.
Two Visions of NSF Funding Before House This Week
The National Science Foundation, which funds the majority of university-based social science research in the United States, will see two different ideas of how its research budget should be overseen in play this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Can We Find the Positive in Academic-Practitioner Tensions?
Albert Einstein is quoted to have said, “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” In their […]
Mental Health and Work: Leadership and Well-Being, Part 3 of 3
As we wrap up our series on mental health and work today, we turn to the effects of leadership and well-being. The European Agency for […]
A Year In — The Conversation UK Marks First Birthday
The Conversation UK, a Social Science Space media partner, celebrates its first birthday today. Here, Stephen Khan, the editor of The Conversation UK, reflects on the year that was.
Judgement Day for Australian Science and Research Funding
When Tony Abbott took office as Australia’s prime minister and didn’t name a science minister, he asked that his government be judged by action, not titles.
Mental Health and Work: Stress and OB, Part 2 of 3
With economic uncertainty and job insecurity on the rise, stress levels are also at increasingly higher levels. With effects on physical and […]
