Blog posts and resources demonstrating the impact of the social and behavioral sciences in policy , society and academe.
The big idea Scientists don’t take time away from their research to share their expertise with journalists, policymakers and everyone […]
At a loss for how to demonstrate impact? Laura Meagher and David Edwards outline a dynamic understanding of impact evaluation comprised of ‘building blocks’. These building blocks are five types of impacts; five broad categories of stakeholders; and eight causal factors, along with a set of over-arching reflective questions.
As Lina Ashour has recently written, SAGE Publishing has helped make possible a report by the UK’s Campaign for Social […]
From the budding sense of a tight-knit community of fellow students and faculty, to radio silence, for a lot of students the rapid coronavirus-driven shift to a digital university experience doesn’t feel like enough. I am one of those students — a current graduate student who recently moved back home to America to finish up the last year of a dual-degree program.
James Jackson, a social psychologist whose pioneering survey of Black Americans created new methodologies and new insights about the psychological resiliency of the community, has died at age 76.
The Network for Advancing and Evaluating Societal Impact of Science, or AESIS, will hold the next edition of its Impact […]
Social Science Space took this opportunity of a call for nominations to ask Tom Kecskemethy, executive director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, about the Moynihan prize specifically and career awards more broadly.
COVID-19 has devastated communities and economies around the world and profoundly changed the ways in which we live and work. […]
After a rapid switch to distance education due to COVID-19, many universities will remain as virtual campuses in the coming fall semester. For many universities, the focus has been on mastering or refining techniques for remote teaching. But a larger challenge looms.
The Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) community experts around the world will lead continuing discussions on broader impact topics. […]
Click here to read more about this year’s Aspect event and to register for any of the 19 webinars being […]
Ken Robinson, the revered and prolific evangelist for connecting education with the arts, died August 21 of cancer. He was 70. As Social Science Space prepares a full obituary, we repost an account of Robinson’s appearance to help mark SAGE Publishing’s 50th year in 2015; SAGE is the parent of Social Science Space.
