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 […]
“Social Scientists Need to Make a Stronger Case for Their Worth”
Social scientists need to make a strong case for their worth inside and outside of academia.
Campaign for Social Science Roadshows
The Campaign for Social Science will hold its latest roadshows in the next few weeks.
The State of Social Science: only itself to blame?
Both society and government rely on social science a great deal, and those who criticise it for what they see as its failure to predict events have misunderstood the nature of the knowledge it can produce.
Making the Case for the Social Sciences Issue 5 – Sport and Leisure
With the Olympic and Paralympic Games piquing the public’s interest in sport, the publication of Making the Case for the Social Sciences: […]
Following the Riots: Research Priorities
During and following the Academy’s conference on the Riots of summer 2011, the speakers were all asked for their thoughts on where […]
The riots of summer 2011: Seminar organised by the Campaign for Social Science
An audience of policy makers, think tanks and academics enjoyed a wide spectrum of views and insights into the events of summer […]
The riots of summer 2011 – Just criminals?
Listen to the audio from this session Chairing the third and final session at this Academy seminar on the riots, Professor Ted Cantle […]
The riots of summer 2011 – Is Britain Broken?
Listen to the audio from this session Introducing the second session at this Academy seminar on the riots, chair Trevor Phillips, Chair of […]
