The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database […]

Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […]

Critical thinking is an important skill, but in practice, it’s often taught in isolated moments rather than as something students can and should use every day. At a […]

Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar, a former justice of the Supreme Court of California and currently the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International […]

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it can be so smart it can identify its shortcomings and avenues for […]

Mazarin Banaji, the experimental psychologist at Harvard University widely known for the implicit association test she and her colleagues developed, has spent […]

Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the […]

In the second episode of this four-part series on The Authority File, Tracey Brown, director of Sense about Science, and Camille Gamboa, […]

An examination of the public’s trust in science, and ways to buttress that precious commodity, center a four-part series of podcasts presented […]

Sage (the parent of Social Science Space) and Surviving Society’s collaborative podcast series, Social Science for Social Justice, has returned for a […]

In the November edition of The Evidence, Josephine Lethbridge explores an historic shift in global wealth – and its potential to reshape charitable giving.  Over the coming decades, […]

In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]

As a lecturer, I have observed increasing discussion among colleagues concerning the continuing value of the dissertation as an essential component of […]

‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.

Brexit seems likely to extend the hostility of the UK immigration system to scholars from European Union countries — unless a significant change of migration politics and prevalent public attitudes towards immigration politics took place in the UK. There are no indications that the latter will happen anytime soon.

A new report from the Royal Society about the effects on Brexit on science in the United Kingdom has our peripatetic Daniel Nehring mulling the changes that will occur in higher education and academic productivity.

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

Despite decades of reform, gender pay gaps (GPGs) remain a stubborn and unjust feature of labour markets globally. On average, women are […]

In this article, Lorenzo Skade discusses the emotional difficulties encountered by early-career researchers involved in ethnographic studies within the business and society […]

Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […]

Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]

The origin of the phrase “publish or perish” has been intriguing since this question was first raised by Eugene Garfield in 1996. Vladimir Moskovkinl talks about the evolution of the meaning of this phrase and shows the earliest use known at this point.

The National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics seeks nominations for members of an ad hoc consensus study panel — sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau — to review and evaluate the quality of the 2020 Census.

Could the 2020 iteration of the United States Census, the constitutionally mandated count of everyone present in the nation, be the last of its kind?

Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or […]

On this platform, growing attention is paid to structural issues in academia, including trust in science and the role of metrics and rankings. In the […]

In September 2025, The Guardian reported about a lawyer in Australia having faced sanctions due to false citations. These citations were not […]

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover […]

You’ve likely heard the hype around artificial intelligence, or AI, but do you find ChatGPT genuinely useful in your professional life? A free course offered by Sage Campus could change all th

The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]

A few years ago, if you asked students where they began their research, the answer was predictable: “Google” or “Google Scholar.” Today, […]

In university classroom, I once asked my undergraduate students if a particular policy decision had strengthened or weakened the national economy. Few […]

It’s become cliche since Clive Humbly coined it in 2006, but data is indeed the new oil. It’s a mantra repeated by […]

It’s not news to those in library-land that book bans and censorship in higher education have serious implications for the future of […]

When I think about book bans, I consider the subject through a variety of lenses. I have taught English in a post-communist […]

Historian Rana Mitter OBE FBA, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at The Harvard Kennedy School, will address ‘China, the US […]

The National Academies are convening a two-day hybrid workshop bringing together researchers, journal editors, publishers, funders, and scientific association leaders to examine approaches for […]

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

Thanks to a collaboration between the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), applications are now being accepted for […]

What is the best strategy for finding someone missing in the wilderness? It’s complicated, but the method known as ‘Lost Person Behavior’ seems to offers some hope.

The President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation & Community Engagement Evidence Challenge is dedicated to forming a strategic, evidence-based plan that federal agencies and external researchers can use to solve big problems.

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to […]

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or […]

Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic […]

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it can be so smart it can identify its shortcomings and avenues for […]

Mazarin Banaji, the experimental psychologist at Harvard University widely known for the implicit association test she and her colleagues developed, has spent […]

Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the […]

Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […]

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

Across higher education, academic pathway programs play a critical role in widening access to degrees, research careers, and faculty positions for students who have […]

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it can be so smart it can identify its shortcomings and avenues for […]

Quick Insight is a series of short videos in which experts from academe and the larger community surrounding the academy address a […]

Mazarin Banaji, the experimental psychologist at Harvard University widely known for the implicit association test she and her colleagues developed, has spent […]

The United States has a long history of celebrating its diverse communities with observances throughout the calendar year. Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, […]

The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing its regular seasonal increase in viral respiratory infections. Traditional schedules have not fully adjusted post-Covid so influenza […]

In an age of homogeneous thinking, where peers, AI or a favorite social media personality or politician present perspectives as facts, it […]

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

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 […]

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

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

Sometimes a book jumps off my shelf and comes to life. Visual research is easier said than done. It seems simple, in […]

The word censorship might bring to mind authoritarian regimes, book-banning, and restrictions on a free press, but Cory Clark, a behavioral scientist at […]

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

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

The French university system has been the subject of continuous reforms for over three decades, resulting in profound structural transformations. Rooted in […]

Who drives digital change – the people of the technology? Katharina Gilli explains how her co-authors worked to address that question.

The negative consequences of relying too heavily on metrics to assess research quality are well known, potentially fostering practices harmful to scientific research such as p-hacking, salami science, or selective reporting. To address this systemic problem, Florian Naudet, and collegues present six principles for assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.

Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed , eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 576 pp. $170.00, […]

The United States has a long tradition of celebrating its diverse communities with heritage observances throughout the calendar year. And yet not […]

The grudging disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the US government has rightly attracted a great deal of commentary. The responses […]

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

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations recently proposed providing secondary publishing rights to academic authors in Canada.

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have teamed up present a 90-minute online session examining how to balance public access to federally funded research results with an equitable publishing environment.

Five organizations representing knowledge networks, research libraries, and publishing platforms joined the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences to review the present and the future of open access — in policy and in practice – in Canada

On this platform, growing attention is paid to structural issues in academia, including trust in science and the role of metrics and rankings. In the […]

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

Education systems do not operate outside of society or in a vacuum, they reflect wider dominant socio-economic approaches and discourses-  the increasing […]

As the U.S. Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a new paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences urges lawmakers to focus on provisions aimed at increasing the numbers of black and Latinx teachers.

To help in decisions surrounding the effects and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences’ offers this collection of articles as a free resource.

Psychologist Susan Fiske was the founding editor of the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. In trying to reach a lay audience with research findings that matter, she counsels stepping a bit outside your academic comfort zone.

RMF2010

SAGE Publishing — the parent of Social Science Space – will hold its Third Annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp on August 9. Leaning more and register here

On May 13, the American Academy of Political and Social Science hosted an online seminar, co-sponsored by SAGE Publishing, that featured presentations […]

On Friday, April 23rd, join the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers for a virtual congressional briefing. The […]

Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]

What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]

The constitutional processes are now complete and Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services […]

The grudging disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the US government has rightly attracted a great deal of commentary. The responses […]

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

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

Kaye Husbands Fealing, an economist who has done pioneering work in the “science of broadening participation,” has been named the new leader of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Clinical psychologist Jane M. Simoni has been named to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Annie Pilote, dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies at the Université Laval, was named chair of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at its 2023 virtual annual meeting last month. Members also elected Debra Thompson as a new director on the board.

Political scientist Kenneth Prewitt, a keen observer of the role of social science in the larger world who used his observations to […]

Stanford psychologist Hazel Rose Markus has been a leading scholar in understanding how culture and psychology interact, a research portfolio that saw […]

Critical thinking is an important skill, but in practice, it’s often taught in isolated moments rather than as something students can and should use every day. At a […]

“Research impact” means different things to different people. Some refer broadly to how science changes behaviors, beliefs, or practices outside academic institutions. […]

A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic productivity, job stability, and income inequality. It also highlights key research opportunities and data needs to help workers and policymakers adapt to the evolving AI landscape.

To address racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S. criminal justice system, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine just released “Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice and Policy.”

The social and behavioral sciences supply evidence-based research that enables us to make sense of the shifting online landscape pertaining to mental health. We’ll explore three freely accessible articles (listed below) that give us a fuller picture on how TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and online forums affect mental health. 

With research-based evidence increasingly being seen in policy, we should acknowledge that there are risks that the research or ‘evidence’ used isn’t suitable or can be accidentally misused for a variety of reasons. 

Over a 10-year period Carol Tenopir of DataONE and her team conducted a global survey of scientists, managers and government workers involved in broad environmental science activities about their willingness to share data and their opinion of the resources available to do so (Tenopir et al., 2011, 2015, 2018, 2020). Comparing the responses over that time shows a general increase in the willingness to share data (and thus engage in Open Science).

Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the […]

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to […]

Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic […]

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

Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s […]

The team at the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, is celebrating its 12th birthday by launching “A Practical Guide to […]

Quick Insight is a series of short videos in which experts from academe and the larger community surrounding the academy address a […]

Mazarin Banaji, the experimental psychologist at Harvard University widely known for the implicit association test she and her colleagues developed, has spent […]

Stanford psychologist Hazel Rose Markus has been a leading scholar in understanding how culture and psychology interact, a research portfolio that saw […]

In 2011, anti-government protests and uprisings erupted in Northern Africa and the Middle East in what is often called the “Arab Spring.” […]

Dr. Liz Przybylski was thinking ahead when she wrote Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between. They unwittingly predicted that we would […]

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing its regular seasonal increase in viral respiratory infections. Traditional schedules have not fully adjusted post-Covid so influenza […]

Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]

What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]

The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice […]

Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]

Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […]

The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]

A few years ago, if you asked students where they began their research, the answer was predictable: “Google” or “Google Scholar.” Today, […]

In university classroom, I once asked my undergraduate students if a particular policy decision had strengthened or weakened the national economy. Few […]

In the first post from a series of bulletins on public data that social and behavioral scientists might be interested in, Gary Price links to an analysis from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series focuses on promoting your writing after publication. The free webinar is set for November 16 at 4 p.m. BT/11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series honors International Open Access Week (October 24-30). The free webinar is […]

At a time when there are so many concerns being raised about always-on work cultures and our right to disconnect, email is the bane of many of our working lives.

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel, present a new open source platform to support this new form of qualitative research.

The Accelerator For Innovation and Research Funding Experimentation (AFIRE) is a new tool dedicated to boosting and revitalizing the design, synthesis, and implementation of experiments through innovation and research funding.

A new database houses more 250 different useful artificial intelligence applications that can help change the way researchers conduct social science research.

Quick Insight is a series of short videos in which experts from academe and the larger community surrounding the academy address a […]

Mazarin Banaji, the experimental psychologist at Harvard University widely known for the implicit association test she and her colleagues developed, has spent […]

Stanford psychologist Hazel Rose Markus has been a leading scholar in understanding how culture and psychology interact, a research portfolio that saw […]

In 2024, Sage surveyed social and behavioral science (SBS) researchers from 96 countries to better understand their motivation, if any, to conduct […]

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 […]