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 […]
Making the Case for the Social Sciences no.2: Ageing
As ‘STEM’ started to become shorthand for ‘the only sort of research work that is of importance to our economy’, and the […]
A Fiscal Black Box
I’m not sure if it was sensible to agree to join the blogosphere with an initial contribution on University Finance? It is […]
Using research to improve policing: an interview with Professor Betsy Stanko of the Metropolitan Police
Taking social science research beyond academia and using evidence to guide public policy is one of the biggest challenges social scientists face. Professor Betsy Stanko is […]
Interview with Richard Bartholomew – Joint head of the Government Social Research Service
It is important that government policy is supported by the best evidence possible, and this is as true in the area of […]
Making the case no.1: Wellbeing
Download a copy of this report from the Academy of Social Sciences Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by […]
Social science – moving society forward
It is vital not to overlook the need for social science work in supporting other advances in our society and the wider […]
Interdisciplinarity: On Social Business
By definition a discipline is “a branch of knowledge, typically studied in higher education” (Oxford). Concentration on a discipline invariably results in […]
The changing nature of scholarly communication
Slides from the ALISS summer conference: Changing nature of scholarly communication The changing nature of scholarly communication. What does this mean for […]
