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 […]
Conference Brings Global Focus to Socal Inequality
Academics from all over the world gather in York this week for one of the most significant conferences of social policy researchers […]
The State of Social Science: only itself to blame?
Both society and government rely on social science a great deal, and those who criticise it for what they see as its failure to predict events have misunderstood the nature of the knowledge it can produce.
Objective truth, social ‘science’ and tennis balls
The entire purpose of social science is to apply disciplined, logical, and serious analysis to of all aspects of contemporary social life. Whether ‘scientific’ or not, this process of exploration is intrinsically valuable.
The Importance of Studying the Obvious
Everyone has experience being human, and so findings in social science coincide with something that we have either experienced or can imagine experiencing. The result is that social science all too often seems like common sense.
Digital Social Science Vs Digital Humanities: Who does what & does it matter?
In an era where Social Science is being asked to prove its relevance the development of a broad Digital research agenda could, in my opinion, should be the way forward.
Why the Stevens Op-Ed is Wrong
The claim that real politics is messier than the statistics are capable of capturing is obviously correct. But the implied corollary – that the government shouldn’t go out of its way to support it – doesn’t follow.
Marketing Manager for Social Sciences and Science, Technology and Medicine. British Library
As a world-famous library holding over 150 million items, we have a lot to share. And we are keen to share it […]
social science sites of the week
Here is the latest weekly round up. Irish referendum See our selected links via the elections blog. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation international summit The […]
