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 […]
The International Sociological Association Should Be Ashamed of Its President
ISA may not have any great love for the richer countries of the world, argues Robert Dingwall, but its president should be capable of telling the difference between mutual aid among sovereign nations and a desire to subject other countries to external domination.
Unpacking Impact
One reason that many social scientists care about impact is that they see in social science the promise of and a path for knowledge – data, analysis, concepts – shaping the world they want to make.
Doing Decolonizing
Business schools and universities across the world are being swept up by a diversified array of decolonizing movements in response to the […]
Helen Kara Calls for Doing Research As If Our Human Participants Mattered
Human research participants are frequently rendered passively in research outputs as ‘research subjects.’ Helen Kara presents three ways in which research participants can be made more central to research.
Developing Engaging Street Theatre from Interview Materials
This blog post builds on the introduction to spatially-led video interviews. This article outlines the process of taking such digital material and working with writers, dramatists and performers to develop site-specific theatre. Over two workshop days we worked through ways to represent how everyday life changed during the 1960s in Newport, a city in Wales.
Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making
Quite often the ideas of ‘risk’ and of ‘uncertainty’ get bandied about interchangeably, but there’s a world of difference between them. That’s a key message from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.
Paper on Danish National Patient Register Keeps on Giving After 10 Years
A paper looking at the Danish National Patient Register has proved one of the most cited papers published by SAGE in 2011.
How Do Amazingly Effective Teams Emerge?
What if we were able to predict which teams are capable of amazing levels of effectiveness even before they’ve had enough time to generate measurable performance?
