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Festival of Social Science – celebration of social science research in the UK
Now in its ninth year, the Festival of Social Science has become an annual event in the calendar of many […]
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Communication
Blog posts and resources relating to social science communication. To start a new discussion on communication, visit the forum via the above link.
Quirk Theory – Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
A new book by Alexandra Robbins looks at social science research about what ‘popularity’ means, why cliques rule schools and […]
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Weekly overview of social science news
Top 50 social sciences universities Times Higher Education IQ scores don’t predict success as much as motivation USA Today Dr […]
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Is it something I said? Sense of humor and partner embarrassment
The potentially harmful effects of humor in romantic relationships is explored in a recent study published in the Journal of Social […]
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Weekly overview of social science industry news
A critical approach to top social science academic works – new book 212 elected as members of the prestigious American […]
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Round up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Cyberbullying among youngsters: profiles of bullies and victims (New Media & Society) Love, romantic obsession and friendship: key measuring factors in […]
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The Future of Knowledge: Mapping Interfaces
The European Science Foundation report on “The Future of Knowledge: Mapping Interfaces” explores the discourse of disciplinarity and the contemporary […]
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Weekly overview of social science industry news
Social sciences and humanities curricula should be amended to make them more job-orientated (Viet Nam News) American medical colleges propose […]
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Flourish or fail? Higher education in crisis – the global context
The Higher Education Policy Institute’s Eighth Annual Lecture was given by Dr Jamil Salmi, the World Bank’s Director of Tertiary […]
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Round up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
This is a new post that will feature fortnightly to highlight social science articles with a particular media or policy […]
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“The immaterial global village”: debunking myths of the internet
In “The Place of the Internet in Anthropology” (in the March 2011 issue of Anthropology News), UCLA PhD student Adam Fish […]
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Breaking silences on broken promises
At a recent seminar of the Campaign for the Public University, someone raised what is an increasingly pressing question. Why […]
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