Social Science Space

Kevin D. Carlson, Virginia Tech, and Jinpei Wu, Minnesota State University Moorhead, published “The Illusion of Statistical Control: Control Variable Practice in […]

How to approach the years beyond the PhD. Some thoughts on alignment, coherence, breadth, and depth.

UK newspapers have belatedly picked up on a troubling precedent that is crystallizing in the US courts. Boston College has been ordered to disclose recordings from an archive of interviews with former IRA members to the Police Service of Northern Ireland…

Thomas A. Conklin, Gannon University, published “Work Worth Doing: A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Discovering and Following One’s Calling” […]

In a recent opinion piece in Miller-McCune Magazine, Anita Guerrini argues that discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among […]

The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee met with prominent UK social scientists last week to discuss the potential […]

This summer, I have been reading one of the most impressive ethnographies that I have seen for a long time: […]

Ben Zimmer writes in the New York Times about Twitter’s appeal to social scientists who are looking for real-time language […]

There are a number of different ways in which social media can be used in academic research and researcher development. […]

During and following the Academy’s conference on the Riots of summer 2011, the speakers were all asked for their thoughts […]

This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In 1931 Arthur Currie, the principal […]

In a recent article in Miller-McCune Magazine, Tom Jacobs discusses new research that explains how feelings of boredom can both […]