Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
What Happens When Workers Speak Out?
Research has shown that employees dissatisfied with working conditions inevitably will communicate their dissent–whether to a superior or only to a coworker–despite […]
Open Access – but not for authors
Open Access to academic journal papers is a hot button issue. The UK government is in favour, along with major UK research […]
My Social Science Career: Special Edition with Milena Zic-Fuchs
An open letter was published online calling for social science and humanities research to be integrated into the new European Framework. Professor Milena Zic-Fuchs spoke to socialsciencespace about the reasons for the open letter and the reaction that it has received.
Study: Mother-Daughter Talks Need More Math
Why do young girls lack confidence in math? One study shows American parents are far more likely to talk numbers with young sons than daughters.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Microsoft opens up new research center targeting social scientists for hire, what social science can do for India, the social science of archaeology and much more on this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.
Richard Sennett on Co-operation
We all need to co-operate to some degree. According to the eminent sociologist Richard Sennett, author of a recent book on the topic, complex co-operation is a craft.
Rom Harré on What is Social Science?
“Everybody lives in a society…They want to know what it is they’re living in” An exploration of the nature of the social sciences. How do they differ from the physical sciences? What challenges do they face? What is their value?
Danny Dorling on Inequality
We live in an age of economic inequality. The rich are growing richer relative to the poor. Does this matter? In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Danny Dorling, a human geographer, discusses this question with Nigel Warburton.
