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2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Ken Benoit from Quanteda

By SAGE Ocean | Published: May 28, 2019

As SAGE Ocean builds up to this year’s winner announcement of the 2019 SAGE Concept Grant, they caught up with the three winners from 2018...

2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Digital DNA Toolbox

By SAGE Ocean | Published: May 22, 2019

As SAGE Ocean builds up to this year’s winner announcement of the 2019 SAGE Concept Grant, they caught up with the three winners from 2018...

Posted in Innovation | Tagged DNA, SAGE Concept Grant | Leave a comment

Try Out – and Build On – Our Social Science Terminology Service

By Alan Maloney | Published: May 21, 2019

At SAGE's new online Social Science Thesaurus, click around to discover information on over 61,000 concepts in the social and behavioral sciences, such as definitions...

Also posted in Resources | Tagged Terminology Service, Thesaurus | Leave a comment

3 Possibilities for Combining Data & Social Science

By Graham MacDonald | Published: May 16, 2019

Graham MacDonald, chief data scientist at Urban Institute gets to work on interesting issues that intersect data science and social science every day. Looking back...

Posted in Innovation | Tagged Data Science, Social Data | Leave a comment

Trans-Atlantic Approaches to Impact and Knowledge Exchange

By Louis Coiffait | Published: May 15, 2019

For this fifth article in the series of measuring impact, Louis Coiffait spoke to two leading UK experts who also know other countries; Dr Hamish...

Also posted in Academic Funding, Impact, International Debate | Tagged Alumni, Higher Education Innovation Fund, Intellectual Property Rights, NIST, STAR Metrics | Leave a comment

Fast Professor: WeChat and Future Academe

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 6, 2019

Daniel Nehring describes China's social networking platform WeChat as 'Facebook on steroids,' and notes it has long surpassed e-mail as the main tool of mediating...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate | Tagged Social Media, WeChat | Leave a comment

Collecting Social Media Data for Research

By Jason Radford | Published: April 30, 2019

How can researchers use social media data in their research? The digitalization of social life offers researchers an unprecedented world of data with which to...

Posted in Innovation | Tagged SAGE Ocean, Social Media, Social Media Research | Leave a comment

What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?

By Gene Tracy | Published: April 19, 2019

Outsourcing our memories -- or actually forgetting once-vital skills that no longer matter in our daily lives -- has always been with humanity. But how...

Also posted in International Debate | Tagged Artificial Intelligence | Leave a comment

Library Collections a Treasure Trove for Social Science Research

By Brian Lavoie | Published: April 11, 2019

WorldCat, an aggregate database of library catalogs worldwide, was primarily set up to aid libraries in carrying out their work in areas such as cataloging...

Also posted in Communication, Resources | Tagged libraries, WorldCat | Leave a comment

What Skills Will Social Scientists Need for the Future?

By SAGE Ocean | Published: March 28, 2019

Watch the SAGE Ocean panel event from the ESRC Festival of Social Science on what skills social scientists will need to be able to do...

Posted in Innovation | Tagged Panels, SAGE Ocean | Leave a comment

VR in Social Science Research: Future or Fad?

By Daniela Duca | Published: March 12, 2019

In February SAGE Ocean ran an enthralling event experience. Three panelists, two hosts and about 20 attendees all put their headsets on from their labs,...

Posted in Innovation | Tagged research tools, SAGE Ocean | Leave a comment

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

By Social Science Space | Published: March 6, 2019

The U.S. military's innovation incubator, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has signed the Center for Open Science to create a research claims database as...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Impact, Public Policy | Tagged Center for Open Science, DARPA, Publication Concerns, Replication, Replication Crisis, Reproducibility | Leave a comment

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2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Ken Benoit from Quanteda

2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Digital DNA Toolbox

Try Out – and Build On – Our Social Science Terminology Service

3 Possibilities for Combining Data & Social Science

Trans-Atlantic Approaches to Impact and Knowledge Exchange

Fast Professor: WeChat and Future Academe

Collecting Social Media Data for Research

What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?

Library Collections a Treasure Trove for Social Science Research

What Skills Will Social Scientists Need for the Future?

VR in Social Science Research: Future or Fad?

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

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