Career

The Loneliness of the Long-Suffering Researcher
Career
January 30, 2019

The Loneliness of the Long-Suffering Researcher

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How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication
Communication
January 28, 2019

How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

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The Pragmatic Utopian: Erik Olin Wright, 1947-2019
Career
January 28, 2019

The Pragmatic Utopian: Erik Olin Wright, 1947-2019

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Impact in Action: Denise Baden
Career
January 8, 2019

Impact in Action: Denise Baden

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Impact in Action: Kevin Bales

Impact in Action: Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales’ work on modern slavery won his one of Britain’s Economic and Social Science Research Council’s 2018 Impact Prize. We’ve asked him how he built meaningfulness into his own research and how to measure impact more broadly.

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Thinking of Publishing in a Journal Published by SAGE?

Thinking of Publishing in a Journal Published by SAGE?

SAGE, the parent of Social Science Space, publishes more than a thousand journals across many disciplines. Given that, it has created a number of structures and process that help prospective authors publish here.

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Impact in Action: Abigail Dymond

Impact in Action: Abigail Dymond

New year, new research? Hear from five ESRC Impact Prize winners on how and what real research impact looks like as you set your own research goals for 2019. Today it’s Abigail Dymond from the University of Exeter.

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Chetty, Crenshaw, Krugman Among AAPSS Inductees for 2019

Chetty, Crenshaw, Krugman Among AAPSS Inductees for 2019

The American Academy of Political and Social Science announced today five eminent scholars who will join the academy as fellows in 2019: Raj Chetty, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Lemann, Alondra Nelson will officially join the academy on the evening of October 3, 2019, in a ceremony in Washington, DC.

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Academic Morale and Ponzi Schemes

Academic Morale and Ponzi Schemes

The pool of PhDs and postdocs has expanded far more rapidly than the long-term career opportunities in higher education, a situation Charles Ponzi would have recognized- and which Felicity Callard captured with a late-November tweet.

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Former Head of Ag Stats Service Takes Reins at COPAFS

Former Head of Ag Stats Service Takes Reins at COPAFS

Cynthia Clark, the former head of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, will take the reins of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics on December 3.

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Wolfson Foundation Funds £10 Million HSS Initiative With British Academy

Wolfson Foundation Funds £10 Million HSS Initiative With British Academy

Making its largest-ever grant in the social sciences and humanities, the Wolfson Foundation awarded the British Academy £10 million to promote high quality research. Under the initiative, the British Academy will create a fellowship program to support early career researchers, develop an international community of scholars and create an intellectual hub at the academy’s London home on Carlton House Terrace.

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Six Things We’ve Learned About Academic Writing Productivity (and Satisfaction)

Six Things We’ve Learned About Academic Writing Productivity (and Satisfaction)

Writing satisfaction is strongly linked to publishing productivity and, potentially, career success. Chris Smith reports on research investigating the tools and systems academics from all career stages use to keep writing and publishing. Age, experience, and having a sense of certainty about what sort of writing system suits you and your life are all important to productivity and overall satisfaction.

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