Archives for September, 2020

New Report: The Social Sciences are Vital for Business
Industry
September 14, 2020

New Report: The Social Sciences are Vital for Business

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Making a Modern Encyclopedia Into a Tool for Lifelong Learning
Industry
September 11, 2020

Making a Modern Encyclopedia Into a Tool for Lifelong Learning

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In Response to ‘COVID-19 Forces Universities to Refocus their Vision’
Insights
September 9, 2020

In Response to ‘COVID-19 Forces Universities to Refocus their Vision’

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Testing-the-Waters Policy With Hypothetical Investment: Evidence From Equity Crowdfunding
News
September 9, 2020

Testing-the-Waters Policy With Hypothetical Investment: Evidence From Equity Crowdfunding

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James Jackson, 1944-2020: Pioneering Researcher of African American Life

James Jackson, 1944-2020: Pioneering Researcher of African American Life

James Jackson, a social psychologist whose pioneering survey of Black Americans created new methodologies and new insights about the psychological resiliency of the community, has died at age 76.

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Heidi Larson on Vaccine Skepticism

Heidi Larson on Vaccine Skepticism

As the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic increased, polling suggests counter-intuitively that resistance to a future vaccine has also risen. Anthropologist Heidi J. Larson identified several likely drivers of this, including scientists themselves.

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AESIS Virtual Conference Looks at Social Science’s Societal Impact

AESIS Virtual Conference Looks at Social Science’s Societal Impact

The Network for Advancing and Evaluating Societal Impact of Science, or AESIS, will hold the next edition of its Impact of Social […]

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‘The Idea of ‘Use’ is Important’: AAPSS and the Role of the Moynihan Prize

‘The Idea of ‘Use’ is Important’: AAPSS and the Role of the Moynihan Prize

Social Science Space took this opportunity of a call for nominations to ask Tom Kecskemethy, executive director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, about the Moynihan prize specifically and career awards more broadly.

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Management-by-Generation: Does Your Generation Provide the Answer to How You Should Be Managed?

Management-by-Generation: Does Your Generation Provide the Answer to How You Should Be Managed?

Establishing management techniques for an age diverse workforce according to their distinct generational characteristics which differentiate their orientations to work is an idea worth examining, argue Cara Reed and Robyn Thomas.

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Doing Collaborative Research

Doing Collaborative Research

In the previous post Mathew Flinders identified the ways in which collaborative research touches the emotions of academics and places different kinds of demands […]

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A Defense of Collaborative Research

A Defense of Collaborative Research

The simple fact is that deep, embedded, collaborative research whereby researchers work hand-in-hand with community participants in order to reveal new perspectives […]

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Social Sciences SHAPE up to Benefit a Post-Pandemic World

Social Sciences SHAPE up to Benefit a Post-Pandemic World

COVID-19 has devastated communities and economies around the world and profoundly changed the ways in which we live and work. Many of […]

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