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 […]
This Book About an Anthropologist Ought to Win the Man Booker
A corporate anthropologist is told to write a report that will “name what’s taking place right now” and is “the First and Last Word on our age.” And so we set the stage for what in turn David Rudrum argues is itself a zeitgeist-defining work.
Sense About Science On the Value of Peer Review
Peer Review Week begins today, a week to explore the role of peer review in addressing academic quality and rigor. Here, Sense About Science details why it feels it’s important to explain peer review to the wider world.
William Davies on the Happiness Industry
‘I think that happiness is better than a lot of what the ‘happiness industry’ represents it as,’ Goldsmiths sociologist Will Davies tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Are Authentic Leadership and Fairness Connected?
[We’re pleased to welcome Christa Kiersch of University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. Dr. Kiersch recently collaborated with Zinta S. Byrne of Colorado State […]
How Does Organizational Design Influence the Risk-Taking Perceptions of Managers?
[We’re pleased to welcome Devaki Rau of Northern Illinois University. Dr. Rau recently collaborated with Thorvald Haerem of BI Norwegian Business School […]
National Science Board Seeks Nominations for Eight Seats
With a third of the seats on the 24-member National Science Board opening next spring, the panel that oversees the U.S. National […]
Evidence-Based Policy: The Challenges
David Canter reviews new research studying the challenges of social science contributing to policy making.
Development Experts Seek Help from Social Scientists
Social scientists must team up to help achieve the global development agenda and help measure progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, attendees of the World Social Science Forum were told.
