Social Science Space

SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, has collected some of the best and most recent, research on guns, shooters, victims and attitudes into a curated microsite.

More money to help Ukrainian academics is being allocated to the Researchers at Risk Fellowship scheme in the United Kingdom.

Engineer and applied physicist Arati Prabhakar – who previously headed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Institute of Standards and Technology — has been nominated to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy

The national science academies of the United States, the all-European academy and those of four separate European countries released, with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a short statement on rebuilding “a modern and globally integrated science and research system” in Ukraine.

Citing his “extraordinary intellectual rigor in reconstructing the civilizations of Mexico and Mesoamerica,” the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences has gone to Mexican archeologist and anthropologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.

President Joe Biden has named criminologist Nancy La Vigne to head the National Institute of Justice, the arm of the […]

In a new initiative with an initial $20 million budget, the U.S. National Science Foundation is partnering with the Social Science Research Council to identify and support science research into public health guidance and its impact.

Karin Orvis, an organizational psychologist who currently heads the Pentagon’s suicide prevention office, has been named the chief statistician of the United States, filling the role on a permanent basis for the first time since 2019.

Vineeta Sinha, a sociologist whose research interests range from religiosity in the Hindu Diaspora and  religion-state encounters to critiques of the social sciences’ infrastructure and rethinking classical sociological theory, will deliver the Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain’s Annual Lecture 2022.

SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is inviting applications for the 2022 SAGE Concept Grant, which provides funding for new software tools for social science research.

Sociologist and organizational theory pioneer Walter W. “Woody” Powell will serve as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences as the center based at Stanford University continues to find a permanent replacement for Margaret Levi

The National Science Foundation is is accepting nominations for the U.S. National Medal of Science until May 20 and a webinar on March 30 will provide tips for submitting nominations.