Author: Social Science Space

Event: Refugee Expert Talks at Data Science For Public Good Series
Event
May 2, 2023

Event: Refugee Expert Talks at Data Science For Public Good Series

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Event: NASEM’s Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture
Event
May 2, 2023

Event: NASEM’s Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture

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Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book
International Debate
April 28, 2023

Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book

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Kellina Craig-Henderson, Head of the NSF’s Social Science Directorate, Dies
News
April 24, 2023

Kellina Craig-Henderson, Head of the NSF’s Social Science Directorate, Dies

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Loet Leydesdorff, 1948-2023: Tackling the Thickets of Innovation and Scientometrics

Loet Leydesdorff, 1948-2023: Tackling the Thickets of Innovation and Scientometrics

Loet Leydesdorff, a sociologist and communications scholar who found academic fame for his work in developing scientometrics and the “triple helix” model of innovation, has died.

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Latest Defense Department Minerva Grants Look at AI, Misinformation, Climate

Latest Defense Department Minerva Grants Look at AI, Misinformation, Climate

The Pentagon’s Minerva Research Initiative has funded six social science projects under its Defense Education and Civilian University Research banner.

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President Biden’s 2024 Budget Request Calls for 18.6 Percent Increase in NSF Budget

President Biden’s 2024 Budget Request Calls for 18.6 Percent Increase in NSF Budget

Although it’s purely aspirational at best, the Biden administration is seeking an 18.6 percent increase in the budget for the National Science Foundation, the United States’ largest funder of academic social science research.

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Sociologist Alondra Nelson Leaving No. 2 Post at OSTP

Sociologist Alondra Nelson Leaving No. 2 Post at OSTP

Sociologist Alondra Nelson, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the most senior adviser on social science in the Biden administration, will resign her post effective February 10.

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Europe’s Research Universities Call for Harnessing Breadth of Social Science and Humanities

Europe’s Research Universities Call for Harnessing Breadth of Social Science and Humanities

A new report from a consortium of European research universities says if the European Union really wants to achieve its stated policy goals, it had better heed the advice of the consortium on including the “broadest possible range” of social science and humanities insights.

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Women in Social and Behavioral Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Set for International Women’s Day 

Women in Social and Behavioral Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Set for International Women’s Day 

SAGE Publishing is hosting an inaugural Women in Social & Behavioral Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 8, which is International Women’s Day

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Watch the Talk: Insights on the Holocaust from Social Science

Watch the Talk: Insights on the Holocaust from Social Science

Political scientist Jeffrey Kopstein outlines some of the evolutions in social science that are allowing scholars to study the Holocaust and its current impacts.

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American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism

American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism

The American Sociological Association recently released a statement “urg[ing] public officials, educators, and lawmakers to avoid suppressing knowledge, violating academic and free speech, and prohibiting scholars and teachers from discussing and teaching about the roles of race and racism in society.

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