Social Science Space

Professor Roger Hood CBE, QC (Hon), PhD, DCL, LLD (Hon), FBA, known for his immense contributions to the international discipline […]

From scholarly article to practical guides, from textbooks to media, from weighty tomes to tweets, researchers and academic writers have […]

The social sciences have a crucial role to play in the COVID-19 recovery, and in addressing many other challenges society […]

COVID-19 has led to new ways of working which have transformed research practices. This has created opportunities for research cultures to be more inclusive and accessible- especially to those for whom the university is a barrier. However, post-pandemic, research cultures also need to change. In this post, Stuart Read, Anne Parfitt and Tanvir Bush outline three provocations that researchers can ask as part of an inclusive research practice.

Since it started in 2011, Academic Writing Month has seen a growth of workshops and initiatives aimed at helping researchers […]

The latest American election made it evident that polls faltered, overall. And that misstep promises to resonate through the field of survey research.

Social sciences, humanities and the arts can help us in our endeavors, which is why we, along with the British Academy and others, have recently launched SHAPE: Social sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy

Fifty years after Ruth Bader Ginsberg worked to secure constitutional equality for women, misogyny is still alive and well in […]

The social sciences are recognized for their role in evaluating policy and offering practice-based interventions about ‘what works’. However, they […]

This panel, “How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19,” organized by the Campaign for Social Science and SAGE Publishing and held on September 21, featured three speakers giving their perspectives on the role of timely, appropriately representative, and reliable social statistics in informing the COVID-19 response and recovery planning.

With nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes of data produced daily, how might we leverage the potential of data to address the […]

‘Action oriented research’ is research which explores socially relevant problems by bridging worlds of theory and practice, which involves collaboration between practitioners (and other research ‘consumers’) and academics and which shortens pathways to impact by combining research production with research use in situ