Archives for November, 2020

To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi
News
November 30, 2020

To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi

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What Does Trustworthy and Credible MTurk Research Look Like? Recommendations and Checklist
Business and Management INK
November 30, 2020

What Does Trustworthy and Credible MTurk Research Look Like? Recommendations and Checklist

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Video and Audio Resources on Structural Racism
Communication
November 26, 2020

Video and Audio Resources on Structural Racism

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Researchers Talk About University Impact and How to Measure It
Impact
November 25, 2020

Researchers Talk About University Impact and How to Measure It

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Data Model Confirms That Wearing Masks Saves Lives

Data Model Confirms That Wearing Masks Saves Lives

Biplav Srivastava, professor of computer science at the University of South Carolina, and his team have developed a data-driven tool that helps demonstrate the effect of wearing masks on COVID-19 cases and deaths. His model utilizes a variety of data sources to create alternate scenarios that can tell us “What could have happened?” if a county in the U.S. had a higher or lower rate of mask adherence.

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The Trump Conundrum

The Trump Conundrum

David Canter, a psychologist observing from the United Kingdom, struggles to explain how Trump got 70 million votes in the United states

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Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

We expect to see confirmation bias play an active role in the politics, where there is a satisfying emotional payoff from assuming the worst of the other side. We do not expect the same phenomenon among highly educated professionals, especially in their seemingly well researched publications. And yet …

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Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Sonia Livingstone Discusses Digital Publishing in the Face of a Global Pandemic

In this Q&A conducted by the LSE Impact blog, social psychologist Sonia Livingstone outlines the ways that the pandemic has transformed the process of promoting a book. She discusses the heightened importance of social media and the opportunities that digital technologies have afforded for reaching new audiences and adapting conventional formats.

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Connective Consumption? Lockdown Life is Restructuring the Ways We Socialize

Connective Consumption? Lockdown Life is Restructuring the Ways We Socialize

People have had a host of responses to lockdown living, ranging from cutting off all contact with others, to maintaining not only […]

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Should PhD Students Be Trained to Make an Impact?

Should PhD Students Be Trained to Make an Impact?

In addition to thesis writing, PhD candidates in SHAPE subjects are expected to be able to communicate their research to diverse audiences […]

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Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Let’s Talk About ‘De-coupling’ and the ‘China Bubble’

Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Let’s Talk About ‘De-coupling’ and the ‘China Bubble’

To what extent do the realities of social research in China live up to the favorable image created by job ads on academic recruitment sites?

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What is a Social Science Essay?

What is a Social Science Essay?

We present this article, adapted from a chapter of ‘Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide,’ as a resource for Academic Writing Month.

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