Social Science Space

Les Back explains in a blog on BSA’s ‘Sociology and the Cuts’ why an understanding of sociology would help senior […]

The last two decades have brought to psychology a renewed attempt to integrate both new forms of cognition (embodied, distributed […]

The British government has confirmed that it will introduce a Defamation Bill in the spring, to change the law on […]

This is an extract from a post originally published  in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, […]

Statements such as ‘knowing about history helps us to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past’ are commonplace.  There is […]

I know the season for frivolous quiz games has passed but do you know who is buried in Westminster Abbey?  […]

It is not often, as a middle aged academic, that I get to feel like James Bond – but there is […]

An edited version of this article originally appeared in the Islamic Studies magazine ‘Perspectives’ (November 2010). Chris Morris’s feature-length satire […]

Extract from an article by Emily Badger in the current issue of Miller-McCune magazine. Despite the past year’s bitter politics, […]

As ‘STEM’ started to become shorthand for ‘the only sort of research work that is of importance to our economy’, […]

I’m not sure if it was sensible to agree to join the blogosphere with an initial contribution on University Finance? […]

Taking social science research beyond academia and using evidence to guide public policy is one of the biggest challenges social scientists face. Professor Betsy […]