Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.
“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.
How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.
Why “social science needs to get its act together,” social science insights into depression and more in this week in Social Science News
In the interest of full disclosure, I spent the first twenty-eight years of my life (give or take) being utterly baffled by […]
We are swimming in ‘big data’ and despite their performances as advocates of data freedom, policymakers don’t seem to bear any responsibility for educating the public on how to read it.
The Academy of Social Sciences is working to articulate the value of social science research to society, the wider economy and policymaking itself, in anticipation of government decisions on spending on research in the UK.
Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.