Social Science Space

“When you educate a man, you educate a person, but when you educate a woman, you educate an entire generation.” The same applies to empowering women to find their footing in organized employment.

This blog post builds on the introduction to spatially-led video interviews. This article outlines the process of taking such digital material and working with writers, dramatists and performers to develop site-specific theatre. Over two workshop days we worked through ways to represent how everyday life changed during the 1960s in Newport, a city in Wales.

Quite often the ideas of ‘risk’ and of ‘uncertainty’ get bandied about interchangeably, but there’s a world of difference between them. That’s a key message from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.

What if we were able to predict which teams are capable of amazing levels of effectiveness even before they’ve had enough time to generate measurable performance? 

How might social media strengthen organizational bonds? Stephanie Dailey takes a look at hashtags can foster member identification.

A multi-place research project in six cities worldwide in the journal ‘Global Perspectives’ brings a new angle to a examination of the civic life of cities.

In this first of a series of three blog posts, geographer Aled Singleton reflects on his research experience of taking the very naturalistic and low-tech concept of walking conversations and outdoor events into a digital form.

Society, the authors, find, suppresses women’s entrepreneurship just by the way it talks about entrepreneurs.

We know that one outlier has the potential to influence the size and direction of effects, the significance of hypothesized relationships, and significantly alter the results of published works, but what happens when there are dozens of outliers in a sample?

in a ‘Why Social Science’ post from 2020, the new leader of the National Science Foundation’s director for social and behavioral science discusses an NSF program to get more research money to minority-serving institutions.

The authors write that their research demonstrates followership as the often-missing piece in the leadership puzzle.

In this post, co-authors Fabian Reck and Alexander Fliaster, both at the University of Bamberg, reflect on their research paper, […]