How designing AI tools can transform cognitive offloading into critical thinking “Welcome to pharmacology!” I announced to a packed auditorium of wide-eyed […]

In an era defined by algorithm-curated feeds, persuasive misinformation, and increasingly sophisticated AI-generated content, the challenge facing higher education is no longer […]

David Canter explores the three interacting corrosive cycles that destroys democracies – limiting effective education, destroying a free press and limiting the […]

Join Sage, the parent of Social Science Space, for a free webinar that highlights a report showing the disconnect between researchers’ desires […]

This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since […]

A March 2026 report from UN Women offers a sobering reality check on women’s progress: across professional, legal and academic fields, the fight for […]

Hazel Rose Markus, a pioneer in social and cultural psychology and a co-founder of  Stanford SPARQ, will receive the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award […]

Scholarly interest in English studies, the interdisciplinary field involving the close analysis of English language and literature and its cultural, social, historical […]

Several prominent universities, including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines in 2025 in a dizzying back-and-forth with the federal […]

Jürgen Habermas, a globally known social theorist whose explorations of democracy, validity and communication have gained new prominence in the current moment, […]

Are your students anxious about learning methods? How to teach research methods without resorting to a quant-qual divide? Do your students struggle […]

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney denounced the so-called ‘rule-based world order’ as ‘fiction’ that was covering up the ‘asymmetries,’ no one […]

Teaching undergraduate students to understand and engage with international relations theory through the traditional ‘isms’ can be challenging.  But what if we […]

With imminent redundancies looming across higher education institutions in the UK, we are left wondering how it went so wrong for the […]

What happens to a college education when a chatbot can draft an essay, summarize a reading and generate computer code in seconds? […]

Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named 74 social scientists as fellows of the academy for the spring 2026 cohort. Fellows are […]

Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) is an annual event of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology that aims to advance understanding of qualitative methods among […]

Eighty years ago this month, the United Kingdom pioneered a novel form of social science research, the life-long cohort study. The tool […]

What does high trading volume in a prediction market actually signal: superior information, a liquidity mirage, or simply good marketing? Traders often […]

The Big Thinking Summit: Inflection Point will draw on historical, linguistic, cultural, and practice-based perspectives to open new possibilities for a Canada at […]

Yale University, Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles are among the schools that have recently placed professors on leave, […]

This piece explores what comes after the university in a global higher education landscape reshaped by crisis, platform capitalism, and the erosion of public […]

The creator of an interactive ICE Detention Tracker will receive the 2026 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award co-sponsored by Sage and […]

Although many may think of accounting as something abstract that happens only in spreadsheets, a new study shows that accounting can impact […]

There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it’s so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker explains […]