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 […]
Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP
In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee published the report Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies, examining the role of science […]
ESRC’s ‘Celebrating the Social Sciences’
Here’s a quick link to the recently launched ESRC video, ‘Celebrating the social sciences’
Making the Case for the Social Sciences Issue 5 – Sport and Leisure
With the Olympic and Paralympic Games piquing the public’s interest in sport, the publication of Making the Case for the Social Sciences: […]
Learning to Be Illegal
“Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood,” published in the August 2011 issue of […]
Schools for Democracy
Some labor unions actively involve their members, including those who are immigrants, in workplace and political campaigns. How does this labor union […]
‘Thou shall not commit a social science’
Eduardo de la Fuente writes in ‘The Australian’ that WH Auden might have got it right when he quipped that the goal […]
How big is the thing?
Stephen Curry writes on the LSE Impact Blog that the growth of academic blogging is an important new outlet for demonstrating impact. […]
Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Sport and Leisure coming in November
The fifth issue, on Sport and Leisure, will be launched as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science on 1st November at […]
