This one-hour webinar, “Positioning Underrepresented Minority Students for College: Best Practices of Precollegiate Pathway Programs,” will kick of a series of three conversations with Curtis Byrd and Rihana Mason.

Despite the extraordinary circumstances of the last year, this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey, its results and recommendations are a great opportunity for higher education institutions to implement long-lasting change.

This seems, writes Daniel Nehring, to be a good time to feel pessimistic about academia in the COVID world, and to turn this pessimism into meaningful debate and effective action.

During the pandemic, a lot of assumptions were made about how people behave. Many of those assumptions were wrong, writes Stephen Reicher, and they led to disastrous policies.

In a free hour-long webinar on July 28, a funder, editor, and publisher will share what they are doing to make a more inclusive research environment, challenges they face along the way, and ideas for future improvement.

What can we as university professors and administrators, asks Stephanie Jirard, do to decisnormatize and decolonize our institutions?

A 2021 report sponsored by the SRA determined that diversity in the UK’s social research community is poor, but “it also shows that there is a strong appetite for change and that many organizations are starting to take steps in the right direction.”

Where ideological issues such as Hong Kong and Taiwan are concerned, Australian lecturers tell of how a vocal minority of international Chinese students are attempting to police teaching materials and class discussions.

During Pride month, SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) hosted a panel discussion about the significance of LGBTQ+ narratives in higher education.

Every July, as stars and stripes flare and then dissipate over the course of a week, I struggle to untangle […]

‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.

The development of critical race theory by legal scholars such as Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw was largely a response to the slow legal progress and setbacks faced by African Americans from the end of the Civil War, in 1865, through the end of the civil rights era, in 1968.