Social Science Space

On April 28, 2021, join the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in partnership with the Hewlett […]

Despite decades of significant growth in social science expertise, research and data, some societal issues remain seemingly intractable. Instead of […]

As a rap artist and academic, A.D. Carson wondered if he could get his new album “published” through an academic press?

“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all […]

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

Robert Dingwall cites a short story from 1957 which highlights why the development of a vaccine needs to always keep an eye on its safety, no matter what the pressures are for its immediate release.

In this Social Science Bites podcast, sociologist Alondra Nelson describes her particular interest in those root seekers whose antecedents were “stolen from African” in the slave trade who make up so much of the African diaspora.

Click here to read more about this year’s Aspect event and to register for any of the 19 webinars being […]

One means of fixing and making ideas tangible, often scorned and neglected in the social sciences, but widely used in STEM, are spinouts. For universities, a spinout is a company formed on the basis of intellectual property from a university or research institute.

The author’s team at the Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research has developed a free, user-friendly computer model that demonstrates how infections and deaths progress on a daily basis over a three-month period depending on how people behave in response to the outbreak.

Janet Salmons, the methods guru at our sister site MethodSapce, interviewed Dr. Peter Gloviczki about his use of autoethnographic methods.

Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard […]