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 […]
Risk, ethics and public sensitivities: LSE TLSS Series
This podcast was recorded by the LSE as part of their series, Thinking like a Social Scientist. Risk, ethics and public sensitivities […]
The Marketplace of Perceptions: Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on the spur of the moment
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, […]
Ethics of research with young children
When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend to – […]
Deep value
‘Public service reform’ was a key theme of New Labour, and with widespread cuts to public services from the Coalition’s spending review […]
SAGE and the British Academy: the Crucial Role of Social Science
A debate held in London on 16th March 2010 as part of the ESRC festival of social science. Co-hosted by SAGE and […]
Measuring wellbeing: the new yardstick of progress?
Paul Allin, Deputy Director: Societal Wellbeing, ONS speaking at the SRA Summer Event in July SRA Summer Event Paul Allin
(Maintaining quality in) social research in straitened times
Patrick Sturgis, University of Southampton, National Centre for Research Methods speaking at the SRA Summer Event in July SRAsummerevent Patrick Sturgiss (ps1r07 […]
Social policy in a time of coalition
Slides from the ALISS summer conference: Social policy in a time of coalition Social Policy in a time of coalition View more […]
