A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Blog posts and resources demonstrating the impact of the social and behavioral sciences in policy , society and academe.
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 […]
After the insurrection, the impeachment, the trial and ongoing partisanship in 2021, many Americans are looking to civics education as […]
In a “dear colleague” letter released March 18, the head of the NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) offers a framework for understanding how to think of broader impact i applying for grant funding.
(Over)consumption, climate change and working from home. These are a few of the concerns at the forefront of consumers’ minds […]
Janet Yellen, appointed as the 78th secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in January, has a long history of work in and alongside the social sciences above and beyond her role as an academic economist and policy maker
A look at the career of Alonda Nelson, who is now essentially the national adviser for social and behavioral sciences in the United States.
“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary devastation, claiming millions of lives and disrupting the economy and daily life across the […]
The New Year Honours, a set of awards that is part of the British honors system and presented by the reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II, recognizes the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.
Sharing our findings beyond academia isn’t typically seen as part of our academic workload. This is problematic for academics who are already struggling to find time to do all the things their complex workload requires of them
David Canter considers why the social sciences failed to influence behavior in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. The virologists had been preparing for a new virus for some years, so were already ahead of the game when they had to start creating a new vaccine. What preparations had social psychologists, sociologists or anthropologists for the inevitable emergence of a new pandemic?
