Social Science Space

The impact of the pandemic on all sectors is only beginning to emerge and given the need for greater flexibility, […]

Lizzie Gadd argues that any commitment to responsible research assessment needs to include action on global university rankings. She argues universities should unite around the principle of being ‘much more than their rank.’

Being bad at math can kill people. Even experts who should understand medical science and help us make good health […]

Just over two months ago, a white male entered three Asian-owned spas in the Atlanta area, and in the ensuing […]

Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, a pioneer in the use of social indicators as an important tool of social science, died on May 8 at the age of 101.

Ron Inglehart, a political scientist whose work on surveying values around the world set new and higher bars on what such studies could achieve, has died at age 86.

When readers — even academic readers — do not understand an article, they are unlikely to read it, much less absorb it, share it and be influenced by its ideas.

Drawing on a linguistic analysis of REF Impact statements from 2014, Andrea Bonaccorsi, highlights key differences between statements being made by scholars in STEM and SSH disciplines and suggests differences in the causality of impact between the disciplines warrant a reconsideration of how these statements are produced and judged.

Amid the ongoing pandemic, venues and events around the world are slowly reopening while others continue to remain online. Conferences […]

Join the American Psychological Association for a free webinar on April 26, 2021. Improvements in the openness, rigor, and reproducibility […]

One of the most heavily contested voting-policy issues in the 2020 election, in both the courts and the political arena, […]

On April 28, 2021, join the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in partnership with the Hewlett […]