Social Science Space

Academic social and behavioral science, when it looks outside of the ivory tower, often focuses on policy implications and thus […]

William T. Riley, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, announced he would retire at the end of December

A new blue-ribbon council convened by the United States’ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine aims to tackle questions about nettlesome issues like conflict of interest, measuring impact and handling retractions.

Thirty new members, including two social scientists, have been named to the science advisory body that is officially tasked with […]

Lecturer Lori Patton Davis of The Ohio State University asks: Why are we still climbing the hill of educational equity 67 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

This one-hour webinar, “Positioning Underrepresented Minority Students for College: Best Practices of Precollegiate Pathway Programs,” will kick of a series of three conversations with Curtis Byrd and Rihana Mason.

Racial/ethnic identity groups have endured racial profiling, are targets of hate crimes, and are often viewed not as individuals but […]

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National […]

Three key positions in the portion of the National Science Foundation focusing on social science will soon be open, and the foundation – the largest funder of academic social science in the United States — is conducting a national search to fill these key jobs.

SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, has awarded grants totaling £25,000 to enable the development of six new software tools for social science researchers.

SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) has launched a new Teaching & Learning hub with a range of […]

The ALA’s Marta Lange Award this year goes to Jill Severn based on her work creating the Special Collections Faculty Fellowship Program at the University of Georgia’s Russell Library, which the committee sees as “a wonderful model for how archival collections can be introduced into political science education.”