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 […]
Why Social Science Research Matters
Michael Lubell, accomplished professor of physics, explains why the social sciences are critical to the advance of science and technology, and explains why we need to protect the social sciences from political attempts to de-fund them.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Austerity policing: Is visibility more important than absolute numbers in determining public confidence in the police? From European Journal of Criminology The link […]
The Sociologist, the Consultant, the University and the Real World
In the context of consulting projects there may be very little room for the sociological imagination, the questioning of common sense, and, least of all, challenges to the status quo.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Social sciences targeted in ‘ ideological ‘ war on research Times Higher Education The Humanities Make Life Bearable Religion Dispatches Costa Rica’s […]
Why Social Science Education is as Important as STEM…
A recent Ipsos-Mori survey reveals the crucial role that social science has to play in modern democracy, a role which is frequently sabotaged.
Inside the Mind of an Entrepreneur
In a column posted on LinkedIn this week, author and Esquire editor A.J. Jacobs explained why a little bit of self-delusion — […]
Social Science Must Change to Realise Its Full Value
Social scientists have nothing to fear from the impact agenda, but must be more willing to talk to “strangers” such as the government in order to realise their full value – a talk by Prof. John Brewer
Scientists Take Their Concerns to Capitol Hill
A group of Maryland-based scientists visited Capitol Hill on Friday, June 14th to talk about the impact of diminished federal funding for science, […]
