Social Science Space

Research is highly difficult during global crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, but at the same time essential, […]

From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine, misinformation is rife worldwide. Many tools have been designed to help […]

UK-China academic collaboration directly involves the CCP and its representatives at the university level. Against the backdrop of the Party’s human rights abuses, argues our anonymous scholar, such collaboration seems increasingly hard to justify.

“When you educate a man, you educate a person, but when you educate a woman, you educate an entire generation.” The same applies to empowering women to find their footing in organized employment.

As violent conflicts become both more pervasive and more localized, a better understanding of how entrepreneurship and peace interact in conflict zones will prove most useful.

Training to help multicultural teams to mesh and feel comfortable together is reckoned a good thing – unless its done in an overly simplistic manner.

Researchers need to observe ethical standards during a pandemic, say Ben Kasstan, Rishita Nandagiri and Siyane Aniley, and journals should hold them to these standards.

The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. […]

Steven Lubet argues that while students have the right to call for academic boycott of Israeli institutions, their university has a responsibility not to award them academic credit for doing so.

Everyone – from ordinary citizens to journalists reporting on big issues and researchers trying to communicate their findings – should accept that science changes, and behave accordingly

Professor Dan A. Segal responds to criticisms in an earlier Social Science Space article and argues that his stance on the BDS movement is consistent with academic freedom.

How sweeping should academic freedom be? Should someone who fought their own battle to preserve put conditions on what they would offer to others?