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Recognition

Renowned Mindset Scholar Receives SAGE-CASBS Award

By SAGE | Published: October 24, 2018

Carol Dweck, the Stanford-based psychologist whose work brought the idea of “mindset” into the education mainstream, will receive the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award.

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SSHRC Impact Awards Get Metaphysical for 2018

By Social Science Space | Published: October 19, 2018

Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council, now in its 40th year, handed out five Impact Prizes earlier this month to honor those showing the...

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Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

By Social Science Space | Published: October 8, 2018

Two academics who have integrated what might have once seemed like non-economic externalities into economic models have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics....

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Five with Social Science Credentials Win MacArthur Grants

By Social Science Space | Published: October 5, 2018

Five people with backgrounds in social, behavioral or data science were among 25 named in the 2018 class of MacArthur Foundation fellows. The fellowship and...

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Golden Goose Award Recognizes Implicit Bias Work

By Social Science Space | Published: September 14, 2018

U.S. government-funded research that on its face looked only at fame, names and gender turned out to be pioneering work into implicit bias. This year...

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British Academy Honors Pair of Political Journalists

By British Academy | Published: September 6, 2018

The British Academy is honoring political journalists Zeinab Badawi and Dame Frances Cairncross among a number of individuals awarded for their services to the humanities...

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Jasanoff to Receive SSRC’s Hirschman Award

By Social Science Research Council | Published: September 5, 2018

Sheila Sen Jasanoff, the founder and director of Harvard University's Program on Science, Technology and Society, will receive the Social Science Research Council's highest honor, the Albert O....

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Submissions Open for Early Career Excellence in Teaching Evaluation Awards

By SAGE | Published: August 27, 2018

Have you ever wanted to engage with thousands of individuals from the evaluation community? Perhaps gather for a shared experience to discuss the practice of...

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British Academy Elects Largest Number of Fellows in Its History

By British Academy | Published: July 22, 2018

A record 76 academics -- four of them alumni of the Social Science Bites podcast series here at Social Science Space -- have been elected...

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ESRC 2018 Impact Prizes Range from Sex to Slavery

By ESRC | Published: June 20, 2018

Researchers whose work has made a real difference to society or the economy, ranging from detailing the true numbers of modern slavery to transforming how...

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ESRC Impact Prize Ceremony this Wednesday

By ESRC | Published: June 18, 2018

The winners of the annual ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize will be announced Wednesday in an afternoon ceremony at the Royal Society. The Impact awards, now in...

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Cheryl Poth on the Nexus of Methodologies

By Michael Todd | Published: June 15, 2018

Attending a workshop conducted by John Creswell changed Cheryl Poth's academic trajectory, confirming an earlier epiphany that purely quantitative approaches weren't telling the whole story...

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