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Professor Roger Hood CBE, QC (Hon), PhD, DCL, LLD (Hon), FBA, known for his immense contributions to the international discipline […]
From scholarly article to practical guides, from textbooks to media, from weighty tomes to tweets, researchers and academic writers have […]
The social sciences have a crucial role to play in the COVID-19 recovery, and in addressing many other challenges society […]
COVID-19 has led to new ways of working which have transformed research practices. This has created opportunities for research cultures to be more inclusive and accessible- especially to those for whom the university is a barrier. However, post-pandemic, research cultures also need to change. In this post, Stuart Read, Anne Parfitt and Tanvir Bush outline three provocations that researchers can ask as part of an inclusive research practice.
Since it started in 2011, Academic Writing Month has seen a growth of workshops and initiatives aimed at helping researchers […]
W. Joseph Campbell is an authority on the history of presidential polling, and in that story, as well as his recent book, “Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in Presidential Elections,” he details just how polls and pollsters – and those who put their faith in them – have misread public opinion when it comes to elections.
When Americans vote this fall, the candidates on their ballots will not reflect the diversity of the United States. Despite […]
Fifty years after Ruth Bader Ginsberg worked to secure constitutional equality for women, misogyny is still alive and well in […]
The social sciences are recognized for their role in evaluating policy and offering practice-based interventions about ‘what works’. However, they […]
Social psychologist Mary Gergen, whose career explored the intersection of social constructionism, narrative studies, and feminist theories, and who was one of the founders of the Taos Institute, died of cancer on September 22. She was 82.
From vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is […]
The Academy of Social Sciences, Britain’s national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences, has named 73 new Fellows for 2020.
