A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
At the beginning of your career, what are the key issues and challenges you face as a social scientist? On this page – and across Social Science Space, in fact – are some tools and resources that may be of use.
Discuss with other early career researchers
Use our forum to get more direct information from others in the same boat as you
Getting published
Need help getting your article or book published? Here are some useful tips and tools:
SAGE gateway – advice on getting published
Guardian Higher Education live chat on getting published
The SAGE series on getting published, from SAGE Connection: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4
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Links
Some other useful sites with support for early career researchers in the social sciences
William T. Riley, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, announced he would retire at the end of December
My absence from these pages has been a produce of many forces. Paradoxically, pandemic-related lockdown has made access through the […]
This one-hour webinar, “Positioning Underrepresented Minority Students for College: Best Practices of Precollegiate Pathway Programs,” will kick of a series of three conversations with Curtis Byrd and Rihana Mason.
Practicing behavioral scientist Preeti Kotamarthi finds it reassuring to know that this subject, which literally burst on the scene only a few years ago, has gained acceptance around the world, and students brave enough to study it now have a career to look forward to.
In the following Q&A, George Justice, an English professor and author of “How to Be a Dean,” explains the origin of tenure and the waning protections that it affords professors in the United States who have it.
The impact of the pandemic on all sectors is only beginning to emerge and given the need for greater flexibility, […]
The American Sociological Association is pleased to announce the results of their 2021 ASA elections. Congratulations to the 2022-2023 President […]
Academic book publishing is under threat. Global university rankings and competition for funding and international student enrolments are reshaping the […]
Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, a pioneer in the use of social indicators as an important tool of social science, died on May 8 at the age of 101.
Ron Inglehart, a political scientist whose work on surveying values around the world set new and higher bars on what such studies could achieve, has died at age 86.
U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Robert Santos, president of the American Statistical Association, as director of the Census Bureau.
Princeton sociologist Marta Tienda will be the next president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
