
Businesses See the Value of Social Sciences, But Does Higher Education Policy?
The social sciences are recognized for their role in evaluating policy and offering practice-based interventions about ‘what works’. However, they […]
2 years agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
The social sciences are recognized for their role in evaluating policy and offering practice-based interventions about ‘what works’. However, they […]
2 years agoSocial psychologist Mary Gergen, whose career explored the intersection of social constructionism, narrative studies, and feminist theories, and who was one of the founders of the Taos Institute, died of cancer on September 22. She was 82.
2 years agoFrom vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is […]
2 years agoThe Academy of Social Sciences, Britain’s national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences, has named 73 new Fellows for 2020.
2 years agoZiyad Marar, president of global publishing at SAGE Publishing, has been elected to the Fellowship of Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences, making him just the second publisher to be so named in the history of Academy’s fellowship program. Marar, whose accomplishments include launching Social Science Space in 2011, joins 72 other fellows in the 2020 cohort.
2 years agoThe Network for Advancing and Evaluating Societal Impact of Science, or AESIS, is currently conducting its Impact of Social Sciences […]
2 years agoTwo economists whose work on how auctions work shone a much broader light on how people value and price goods and service have received the 2020 Nobel Prize in economics.
2 years agoThere is no doubt that student experience as a whole will not be the same if universities move entirely online. But we must not assume that online teaching is automatically inferior to face-to-face teaching.
2 years agoScholars and artists whose work ranges from using statistical inference to address economic, social, scientific and medical challenges, to understanding […]
2 years agoThis summer, universities around the world planned for an unprecedented back-to-school in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In most universities, […]
2 years agoWhat makes a webinar presentation feel stale? You probably know ’em when you experience ’em. But how do you escape that trap in your own presentation, Echo Rivera is here to help …
2 years agoRobert Dingwall cites a short story from 1957 which highlights why the development of a vaccine needs to always keep an eye on its safety, no matter what the pressures are for its immediate release.
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