Reports

Anna-Sigrid Keck and colleagues designed a structured doctoral program focused on transdisciplinary research and compared students’ publication patterns to students in traditional programmes. While rates...

SAGE Publishing surveyed social scientists around the world to learn more about who engages in research using ‘big data,’ and what challenges they face as...

A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social...

  The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The articles linked below are free to read...

This week the LibDem conference. See our blog on useful news sites and social media resources. Including the Nick Clegg video! Also on this theme:...

With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the...

Olympic Games. Of course this week’s key story is the London 2012 Olympics. HM Government Olympic Communication newsroom. Acts as a central point for UK...

This week: Titanic commemorations In the news this week the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. see our quick links to news and commemorative resources....

Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project launched. Marvellous new resource created by Google in association with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to commemorate the life...

Budget week. The Guardian datablog issued a really good collection of 10 visualizations of data that you need to understand the British budget and the...

Future for Women on boards: Milestone or Millstone? Annual report from FTSE and Cranfield University. It examines the percentage of women on top company management...

http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/social-science-sites-of-week_26.html 27th January is Holocaust memorial day To mark the occasion a new educational tool has been launched by University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation...