High education is usually one of the first casualties when a country is at war. Rebuilding — or even defining what rebuilding means — quite often is far from the first priority when the shooting stops.

To celebrate winter on this New Year’s Eve, here is a collection of beautiful, winter-themed art: Pancake Tuesday (Maslenista) by […]

Derek Wall praises ‘The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making,’ Christopher Shaw’s exploration of environmental policymaking. The book focuses on the public circulation of 2°C as the widely cited maximum figure by which temperatures can be allowed to rise.

As the year comes to an end, we’d like to celebrate by taking a look back at some of the […]

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Louise Thompson who examines how great it would be if we could all play a bigger part in making changes to laws before they come into force, rather than just complaining about them afterwards

Computers have revolutionized academic research – and at the same time created a new crop of problems. But, suggests Ben Marwick, computers can also help address some of the challenges they have created.

Crises are common in the modern world and the value system of leaders plays a crucial role in effectively managing […]

C. Smith, H. Davidson (2014). The paradox of generosity: Giving we receive, grasping we lose. New York, NY: Oxford University […]

If there is one thing to be said about the holiday season, it is that there are plenty of unique […]

Stanford’s Albert Bandura, a psychologist who first gained acclaim for his study of learned violence involving a Bobo doll, has received one of seven National Medals of Science awarded by President Barack Obama this year.

The January 2016 issue of Journal of Management Inquiry is now available and free to read for the next 30 […]

Sociologist Eric Giannella argues the uncertainty of science makes intuition and judgement essential, and yet the effect of metrics is to reduce the role of judgment.