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How Do You Feel About Companies With Personal Data

By Helen Kennedy | Published: March 31, 2018

The recent revelation that Cambridge Analytica was able to acquire the Facebook data led to a surge of interest and questions around what companies do...

Also posted in News, Research Ethics | Tagged Big Data, Data Science, Research Methods | Leave a comment

What is The Relationship Between Research and Policy?

By Christina Boswell | Published: March 17, 2018

Christina Boswell and Katherine Smith set out four different approaches to theorizing the relationship between knowledge and policy and consider what each of these suggests...

Also posted in Impact | Tagged Academic Knowledge, policymaking | Leave a comment

Aging Collection Marks First of Many Interdisciplinary Troves for Researchers

By SAGE | Published: March 15, 2018

In the first of what will be a monthly series, SAGE Publishing will open up articles in a specific area of public interest – note,...

Posted in Research | Tagged Aging, Microsite | Leave a comment

Academy of Management Report on Measuring Scholarly Impact

By Usha Haley | Published: March 13, 2018

Usha Haley shares findings of a recent Academy of Management report that sought to answer the impact of scholarly research. By surveying 20,000 members &...

Also posted in Impact, News, Research Ethics | Tagged Academy of Management, Scholarly Impacts | Leave a comment

Educational Reforms Still Have No Answer for School System

By Jack Schneider | Published: March 9, 2018

The Gates Foundation is regrouping after its latest school improvement disappointment, but it’s not bowing out of the education reform business. As the philanthropic powerhouse...

Also posted in Academic Funding, International Debates, News, Public Engagement, Teaching | Tagged Bill Gates foundation, reform | Leave a comment

Nominations for the 5th Annual CASBS-SAGE Awards Open

By SAGE | Published: March 8, 2018

CASBS at Stanford University and SAGE Publishing are announcing nominations to the fifth annual SAGE-CASBS awards. The award goes to researchers who have made outstanding...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, Public Policy, Recognition | Tagged Award, Call for Nominations, CASBS, SAGE Publishing | Leave a comment

Ignorance and Interdisciplinary Work: Field Notes from the Social Science Foo Camp

By Tom Kecskemethy | Published: March 7, 2018

The first-ever “Social Science FOO Camp” was held a couple weeks ago at the Facebook headquarters in California. What's a Social Science Foo Camp? According...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, News, Teaching | Tagged Ignorance, Social Science Foo | Leave a comment

Sander van der Linden on Viral Altruism

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 1, 2018

When online charitable appeals take off, social psychologist Sander van der Linden perks up. He studies ‘viral altruism,’ and in this Social Science Bites podcast...

Also posted in Social Science Bites | Tagged Social Psychology, Vital Altruism | 2 Responses

Are Ethnographers Ever Wrong?

By Steven Lubet | Published: February 28, 2018

Steven Lubet, the author of 'Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters,' explains the importance of his approach to investigating the discipline -- to 'put it on...

Also posted in Communication, Research Ethics | Tagged Ethnography, Response, Urban ethnography | Leave a comment

The State of Gun Research in the US: Six questions answered

By Lacey Wallace | Published: February 21, 2018

The research needed to answer questions about the role of firearms in acts of horrific mass violence doesn’t exist – and part of the problem...

Also posted in News, Public Policy | Tagged Guns, Mass Shootings | Leave a comment

How Young People Cope with Challenging Contexts

By David Canter | Published: February 13, 2018

In an exploration of the complex dynamics of youth in especially challenging situations around the world, Charalmabos Tsekeris and Lilu Stylianoudi from the Academy of...

Posted in Research | Tagged Youth | Leave a comment

Interrogating Ethnography – and Coming Up with the Wrong Answers?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: February 8, 2018

A recent critique of Alice Goffman's influential 2014 book, "On the Run," has, in effect, put ethnography conducted in the United states on trial. Here,...

Also posted in International Debates, News | Tagged Alice Goffman, Steven Lubet, Triangulation, Urban ethnography | Leave a comment

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How Do You Feel About Companies With Personal Data

What is The Relationship Between Research and Policy?

Aging Collection Marks First of Many Interdisciplinary Troves for Researchers

Academy of Management Report on Measuring Scholarly Impact

Educational Reforms Still Have No Answer for School System

Nominations for the 5th Annual CASBS-SAGE Awards Open

Ignorance and Interdisciplinary Work: Field Notes from the Social Science Foo Camp

Sander van der Linden on Viral Altruism

Are Ethnographers Ever Wrong?

The State of Gun Research in the US: Six questions answered

How Young People Cope with Challenging Contexts

Interrogating Ethnography – and Coming Up with the Wrong Answers?

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