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 […]
University of Bradford School of Management wins national award praising the practical nature of its research
A study on The need to get more for less – authored by a mother and daughter team of academics from the […]
The State of Social Science: only itself to blame?
Both society and government rely on social science a great deal, and those who criticise it for what they see as its failure to predict events have misunderstood the nature of the knowledge it can produce.
Objective truth, social ‘science’ and tennis balls
The entire purpose of social science is to apply disciplined, logical, and serious analysis to of all aspects of contemporary social life. Whether ‘scientific’ or not, this process of exploration is intrinsically valuable.
Emancipatory Islam: How Yemeni-American Women Balance their American Dreams
A qualitative study highlights the narratives of 20 Yemeni-American second-generation women in Detroit.
The Importance of Studying the Obvious
Everyone has experience being human, and so findings in social science coincide with something that we have either experienced or can imagine experiencing. The result is that social science all too often seems like common sense.
The Finch Report on Open Access: Quick Overview
A quick overview of the Finch Report on Open Access, and useful links.
Why the Stevens Op-Ed is Wrong
The claim that real politics is messier than the statistics are capable of capturing is obviously correct. But the implied corollary – that the government shouldn’t go out of its way to support it – doesn’t follow.
