Webinar: Braving the Storm – How Climate Change Will Affect How and Where We Live
How will climate change affect where – and how – we live? Join an expert panel of demographers as they […]
1 year agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
How will climate change affect where – and how – we live? Join an expert panel of demographers as they […]
1 year agoThe many impacts the pandemic has had on children, adolescents, and adults, including those diagnosed with a mental illness before […]
1 year agoRobert Dingwall asks if claims about the effectiveness of face masks in stopping COVID consistent with current standards of research integrity.
1 year agoBritain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named 75 social scientists from the academic, public, private and third sectors as Fellows […]
1 year agoEveryone – from ordinary citizens to journalists reporting on big issues and researchers trying to communicate their findings – should accept that science changes, and behave accordingly
1 year agoThe authors of a new paper in ‘Management Learning’ believe that a reflexive relationship to their identities produces liberating forms of knowledge, which in turn seems to lie at the heart of transforming how they teach.
1 year agoDistrust of atheists is strong in the United States. The General Social Survey consistently demonstrates that as a group, Americans […]
1 year agoProfessor Dan A. Segal responds to criticisms in an earlier Social Science Space article and argues that his stance on the BDS movement is consistent with academic freedom.
1 year agoA collection of prominent American-based “scholars of democracy” – the majority of them political scientists – have signed a statement in support of the Freedom to Vote Act.
1 year agoAnything may be justified in the name of biosecurity, suggests an alarmed Robert Dingwall. This emotional manipulation spills into the wider worlds of politics, science and, indeed, sociology.
1 year agoAs a racialized woman raising racialized children, Shezadi Khushal thinks about the impact of racism on identity, mattering and belonging; and on student academic performance and outcomes. For this reason, I have engaged in the scholarship of anti-racist educational leadership.
1 year agoIn recent years, many behavioral scientists have begun to question whether loss aversion is quite so ironclad a principle of the human mind
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