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The Trump Administration’s Last Best Chance to Slash Legal Migration

By Donald Kerwin | Published: February 5, 2019

The Center for Migration Studies, has analyzed changes in the immigration rules for 'lawful permanent residents' and found the potential effect on “intending immigrants” would...

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Washington and Social Science: The Shutdown and the Damage Done

By Mark Vieth | Published: February 4, 2019

Even if Congress and the president succeed in breaking the logjam and approve the remaining fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills, the new Congress will find...

Also posted in Academic Funding | Tagged NSF, Shutdown | Leave a comment

The What, Why and How of Collective Intelligence

By SAGE | Published: January 25, 2019

How can we develop a new field of collective intelligence that pulls across disciplines and works between academic and practitioner domains? This was a key...

Also posted in Innovation | Tagged Collective Intelligence, Nesta | Leave a comment

OBSSR Aims to Define Behavioral and Social Science Research

By Social Science Space | Published: January 23, 2019

The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, which has a rather lengthy revised definition that it’s currently asking experts...

Also posted in Announcements, Communication, Public Policy | Tagged OBSSR | Leave a comment

Social Science Space 2018 Round-Up

By Philip Patino | Published: January 18, 2019

Last year Social Science Space presented more than 200 articles on the impact, infrastructure and industry surrounding social and behavioral science and research. Here we...

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How Does Federally Funded Science Fare in Shutdown?

By Angela K. Wilson | Published: January 14, 2019

During this U.S government partial shutdown, agencies including the NSF, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Parks Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Environmental...

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Impact in Action: Matt Flinders

By Social Science Space | Published: January 3, 2019

In the next few days Social Science Space will hear from five winners of Britain's Economic and Social Science Research Council's 2018 Impact Prize to...

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The A to Z: Tips for Writing an Impact Case Study

By Sally Brown | Published: December 27, 2018

With submission to REF 2021 now less than two years away, university staff and academics are stepping up work to present their best examples of...

Also posted in Recognition, Research, Tools | Tagged Case Study, REF | 1 Response

How the Brazilian Elite Delegitimize Demands for Greater Racial Equality

By Luiz Valerio P. Trindade | Published: December 21, 2018

Brazilian elite have an enduring resistance to acknowledging the existence and the pernicious effects of racism in shaping the country’s contemporary social relations. These effects...

Also posted in Featured, International Debate | Tagged Brazil, color-blind racism, Marielle Franco, Race and Gender | Leave a comment

Ebola Response and the Utility of Social Science

By Hana Rohan, Daniel G Bausch and Karl Blanchet | Published: December 19, 2018

The Congo's devastating Ebola outbreak demands that a critical component of that international response should be to rapidly identify and deploy national and international social...

Also posted in Impact | Tagged Congo, Ebola, PLOS One | Leave a comment

What Can We do About Scientific Misconduct?

By Janet Salmons | Published: December 7, 2018

In a world of alternative facts we should be able to turn to scientific research for reliably trust-worthy perspectives, yet even peer- reviewed journal articles...

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Research for Social Good Means Addressing Scientific Misconduct

By Janet Salmons | Published: December 7, 2018

Social Science Space's sister site, Methods Space, explored the broad topic of Social Good this past October, with guest Interviewee Dr. Benson Hong. Here Janet Salmons...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, Interview | Tagged Method Space, Social Good | Leave a comment

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OBSSR Aims to Define Behavioral and Social Science Research

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Impact in Action: Matt Flinders

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