Impact

Scared Straight: Evidence Makes for Better Biosecurity Rules
Impact
March 9, 2016

Scared Straight: Evidence Makes for Better Biosecurity Rules

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The North-South Divide Appears in Metrics, Too
Higher Education Reform
March 1, 2016

The North-South Divide Appears in Metrics, Too

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One Size Does Not Fit All
Higher Education Reform
February 4, 2016

One Size Does Not Fit All

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg
Career
January 26, 2016

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg

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Social Science Bites Makes Leap to Print

Social Science Bites Makes Leap to Print

This month, a collection of 18 Social Science Bites podcasts has been released by Social Science Space’s parent, SAGE Publishing in book form. We talk with series co-host Dave Edmonds about Bites’ genesis and direction.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Sam Miles

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Sam Miles

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Sam Miles’ question of whether greater exposure to the cyberworld is creating a dystopia or a utopia.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Rebecca Wheeler

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Rebecca Wheeler

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Rebecca Wheeler’s hopes that applied cognitive psychology can and should improve policing.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Matjaz Vidmar

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Matjaz Vidmar

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Matjaz Vidmar and his look at a unique environment for conducting academic research half a century hence …

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Louise Thompson

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Louise Thompson

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Louise Thompson who examines how great it would be if we could all play a bigger part in making changes to laws before they come into force, rather than just complaining about them afterwards

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Psychologist Bandura Awarded National Science Medal

Psychologist Bandura Awarded National Science Medal

Stanford’s Albert Bandura, a psychologist who first gained acclaim for his study of learned violence involving a Bobo doll, has received one of seven National Medals of Science awarded by President Barack Obama this year.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Kristin Hübner

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Kristin Hübner

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Kristin Hübner’s discussion on how feminist theory may erase socially constructed ideas about what gender is and how it functions.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Elizabeth Houghton

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Elizabeth Houghton

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Elizabeth Houghton’s examination of how more universal access to higher education could chip away at entrenched racial divides.

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