Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
NSF Announces Program to Enhance Research at Minority-Serving Institutions
The National Science Foundation’s Build and Broaden program aims to support research and research capacity at minority-serving institutions in the United States.
British Academy’s Net Zero Policy Programme Calls for Research Proposals
The British Academy has announced the Net Zero Policy Programme is calling for research proposals from UK-based universities or research institutes with a submission deadline of February 8, 2023. There will is a single award available of £150,000, and the duration of the award is 15 months with a start date in March 2023.
Looking Back at 2022 on Social Science Space
As is the wont of many media websites, with the end of the year here at Social Science Space, we like to look back at the year-that-was as the-year-that-is-to-be looms.
How British Literary Psychogeography Offers Possibilities for Researchers
In the previous blog we learned about the type of psychogeographical thinking which was developed by Guy Debord and Situationist International. The latter movement was centered on France and mainland Europe in the immediate decades after World War II. Ultimately they failed to get their message through to wider society. In this article I explore how their basic principles re-emerged as a new form of psychogeography in the British Isles. This form would be less political than the work of Debord, at least on the surface, and would be championed by poets, writers of historical fiction and other forms of literature.
Coproduction, Critique and Collective Knowledge: Driving Positive Change
Drawing on work carried out for the Realising Just Cities program, Beth Perry discusses how co-production enabled participants to collectively develop and refine a form of critique that can drive positive change.
Social Science Can Reduce Firearm-Related Injuries
Every day across the United States, more than 120 people die from firearm injuries. This is a crisis that requires urgent attention from the scientific community, and social scientists have a critical role to play.
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-2022: The Father of Humanistic Geography
Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of geography, died August 10 at the age of 91.
Big Think Podcast Series Launched by Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences has launched the Big Thinking Podcast, a show series that features leading researchers in the humanities and social sciences in conversation about the most important and interesting issues of our time.
