Social Science Space

Nico Calavita is, by his own admission, a sort of accidental activist scholar. Now, after a career in which he’s become a recognized expert on the tools and provision of affordable housing, Calavita has been honored with the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award, sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association and SAGE Publishing.

UPDATED WITH WINNERS: Various artists and intellectuals have written for Index on Censorship over the years. As the London-based organization hands out its annual Freedom of Expression Awards, here are some quotes from them that we hope inspire you to speak out for those who can’t.

Sharon Witherspoon, the former director of the Nuffield Foundation and a guiding light of the Q-Step initiative, has been named […]

While many academic journal websites are mostly repositories for their digital archives, the interdisciplinary journal History of the Human Sciences has […]

Doreen Massey’s academic career combined the geographer’s focus on space with an advocate’s focus on inequality and class. Massey died Friday at age 72.

Both researchers and publishers are drawn to interesting results, and at times research bends itself to achieve those results — regardless of what hypothesis was originally under scrutiny. We must hold ourselves accountable to decisions made before seeing the data, argues David Mellor, who introduces a new prize for scholars who preregister their research.

There has been a surge of new scholarly communication tools in recent years. But how are researchers incorporating these tools into their research workflows? Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer are attempting to answer that question through a global survey that asks researchers what choices they are making and why. 

Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council on Monday awarded five academics for their impactful research in a variety of key current issues, including language acquisition, refugees, water policy, homelessness and government surveillance.

Authors have until December 1 to submit abstracts for a special issue for Journalism Theory, Practice and Criticism titled, “From […]

With a third of the seats on the 24-member National Science Board opening next spring, the panel that oversees the […]

The Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program is an interdisciplinary training program that helps early-stage doctoral students […]

The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, or OBSSR, opened on July 1, 1995, and later this month three days of events will mark that 20^th anniversary at NIH’s Bethesda, Maryland campus