Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
The Trailblazing Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander
“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them […]
Businesses See the Value of Social Sciences, But Does Higher Education Policy?
The social sciences are recognized for their role in evaluating policy and offering practice-based interventions about ‘what works’. However, they are less […]
The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters
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.
Alondra Nelson on Genetic Testing
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.
Aspect Annual Webinar Event 2020: Building Propensity & Well-Being Through Social Science Innovation
Click here to read more about this year’s Aspect event and to register for any of the 19 webinars being offered over […]
Social Science ‘Spinouts,’ An Underappreciated Pathway to Impact?
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.
A Simple Model Shows Value of Common COVID Defenses
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.
Self and Social: An Interview About Autoethnography
Janet Salmons, the methods guru at our sister site MethodSapce, interviewed Dr. Peter Gloviczki about his use of autoethnographic methods.
