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 […]
Toby Miller on Cultural Studies
Toby Miller, author and editor of over 30 books on interdisciplinary topics within the Social Sciences, discusses Cultural Studies in relation to his work on the Hollywood film industry and addresses wider questions about objectivity and bias.
Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes
The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.
Web 2.0: Anarchy or Revolution?
With the exponential expansion even over the last few months of Web 2.0 it is important for social scientists to get a grip on the wide-reaching implications of these developments.
Big Data: Benefit to Society, or Drowning in a Data Deluge?
With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.
Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize
New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.
ESRC Festival of Social Science, and the ‘Big Data’ Debate
This week is the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, an event that takes place all over the UK where social scientists get […]
“Social Scientists Need to Make a Stronger Case for Their Worth”
Social scientists need to make a strong case for their worth inside and outside of academia.
Campaign for Social Science Roadshows
The Campaign for Social Science will hold its latest roadshows in the next few weeks.
