Dispatches from Social and Behavioral Scientists on COVID
Has the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted how social and behavioral scientists view and conduct research? If so, how exactly? And […]
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Has the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted how social and behavioral scientists view and conduct research? If so, how exactly? And […]
3 weeks agoVineeta Sinha, a sociologist whose research interests range from religiosity in the Hindu Diaspora and religion-state encounters to critiques of the social sciences’ infrastructure and rethinking classical sociological theory, will deliver the Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain’s Annual Lecture 2022.
4 weeks agoand a science and technologies studies scholar whose high-profile work often looks at the connection of sport and technology, has taken the reins of the National Science Foundation’s Social and Economic Sciences Division
2 months agoThe World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11 2020. In the two years since, countries have diverged on their containment strategies, introducing many different ways of mitigating the virus, to varying effect. Here, four health experts look at what has worked well, what mistakes scientists and policymakers made, and what needs to be done to protect human health from here on.
2 months agoAn interdisciplinary team is not a group of people trained in “interdisciplinarity.” It’s a group of people who have deep knowledge and sound judgment in their disciplines.
3 months agoA coalition of more than 400 oral health, behavioral science, and social science groups and scientists, crafted a mission statement as a first step towards a more interdisciplinary approach to oral health around the world.
4 months agoThe Association for Psychological Science Global Collaboration on COVID-19 brought experts together to assess how their field has contributed to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify possibilities for new research to answer unanswered questions.
4 months agoA new report on supporting the big data infrastructure needs of universities offers a variety of real-world recommendations for improving the research environment.
6 months agoAnything may be justified in the name of biosecurity, suggests an alarmed Robert Dingwall. This emotional manipulation spills into the wider worlds of politics, science and, indeed, sociology.
6 months agoIn the wake of the pandemic of suspect “facts” shared about COVID-19, social and behavioral scientists from around the world […]
6 months agoJoin the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and the Coleridge Initiative for a two-day conference to advance understanding […]
11 months agoAn anthropologist, a biologist and a historian at the University of Guelph jointly held a summer online course on all aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a hit
12 months ago