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 […]
Patients Can Benefit When Psychologists Open Up About Their Own Mental Illnesses
the authors’ research finds that, far from being immune to the conditions they treat in others, psychologists grapple with mental health difficulties or illnesses just as much as their patients do.
David Williams on ‘The Virus of Racism’ at OBSSR’s Annual Matilda White Riley Event
Sociologist David R. Williams will address “The Virus of Racism” for the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research annual celebration of the legacy of Matilda White Riley.
Comparing Priorities for Mental Health Research with Fostering Well-Being
Wouter van de Klippe, Alfredo Yegros, Tim Willemse and Ismael Rafols discuss their mixed methods research into prioritization in mental health research, using expert focus groups and bibliometric data to explore how perceptions of where the field should be heading, differ from current research priorities and how different countries have developed different research priorities in this area.
Watch the 2022 SAGE-CASBS Award Lecture: Jennifer Richeson on the Myth of Racial Progress
The problem with this myth of racial equality in the United States, argues Jennifer Richeson, is that is shapes what we see and how we perceive the actual state of racial inequality.
Sheila Jasanoff on Science and Technology Studies
Sheila Jasanoff is a pioneer in the field of STS. That acronym can be unpacked as either ‘science and technology studies’ or ‘science, technology and society.’ Jasanoff — who describes herself as a sociologist of knowledge and a constructivist, trained in law, working in the tradition of the interpretive social sciences – is content with either use.
US Getting a Permanent Chief Statistician After Two-Year Gap
Karin Orvis, an organizational psychologist who currently heads the Pentagon’s suicide prevention office, has been named the chief statistician of the United States, filling the role on a permanent basis for the first time since 2019.
Comparing Felt Responsibility for Ethical Purchasing in Professional and Personal Roles
Liz Cooper explains the motivation behind the paper she co-wrote with Ben Marder, “Role morality discrepancy and ethical purchasing: exploring felt responsibility […]
Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain Lecture Looks Across Disciplines at Decolonization
Vineeta Sinha, a sociologist whose research interests range from religiosity in the Hindu Diaspora and religion-state encounters to critiques of the social sciences’ infrastructure and rethinking classical sociological theory, will deliver the Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain’s Annual Lecture 2022.
