The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database […]

Around the world, universities find themselves in crisis, with higher education governance, academic labor, and the meaning of scholarship undergoing profound transformations. […]

Please note: this contest has now closed. The winner will be contacted in due course. This November, Sage and Overton invite you to share the unexpected […]

Common sense is often, as you may have heard, often neither common not sensible. Usually that’s a dispiriting commentary drawn when someone […]

The latest generation of artificial intelligence models is sharper and smoother, producing polished text with fewer errors and hallucinations. As a philosophy […]

In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]

Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of […]

In the second episode of this four-part series on The Authority File, Tracey Brown, director of Sense about Science, and Camille Gamboa, […]

An examination of the public’s trust in science, and ways to buttress that precious commodity, center a four-part series of podcasts presented […]

Sage (the parent of Social Science Space) and Surviving Society’s collaborative podcast series, Social Science for Social Justice, has returned for a […]

In the November edition of The Evidence, Josephine Lethbridge explores an historic shift in global wealth – and its potential to reshape charitable giving.  Over the coming decades, […]

In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]

As a lecturer, I have observed increasing discussion among colleagues concerning the continuing value of the dissertation as an essential component of […]

‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.

Brexit seems likely to extend the hostility of the UK immigration system to scholars from European Union countries — unless a significant change of migration politics and prevalent public attitudes towards immigration politics took place in the UK. There are no indications that the latter will happen anytime soon.

A new report from the Royal Society about the effects on Brexit on science in the United Kingdom has our peripatetic Daniel Nehring mulling the changes that will occur in higher education and academic productivity.

Despite decades of reform, gender pay gaps (GPGs) remain a stubborn and unjust feature of labour markets globally. On average, women are […]

In this article, Lorenzo Skade discusses the emotional difficulties encountered by early-career researchers involved in ethnographic studies within the business and society […]

In this post, authors Richard F.J. Haans and Marc J. Mertens reflect on the inspiration behind their research article, “The Internet Never […]

Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]

The origin of the phrase “publish or perish” has been intriguing since this question was first raised by Eugene Garfield in 1996. Vladimir Moskovkinl talks about the evolution of the meaning of this phrase and shows the earliest use known at this point.

Social psychologist Felice Levine, who has served as executive director of the American Educational Research Association for more than 22 years, will step down in 2025.

The National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics seeks nominations for members of an ad hoc consensus study panel — sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau — to review and evaluate the quality of the 2020 Census.

Could the 2020 iteration of the United States Census, the constitutionally mandated count of everyone present in the nation, be the last of its kind?

Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or […]

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover […]

It’s that time of the year again. Some 50 percent of your academic LinkedIn connections share they are “happy” or even “thrilled” […]

A new study on the connections between editors-in-chief in the social sciences reveals significant geographical and gender imbalances in editorial leadership. Male […]

You’ve likely heard the hype around artificial intelligence, or AI, but do you find ChatGPT genuinely useful in your professional life? A free course offered by Sage Campus could change all th

In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]

Try this experiment with your students. Open ChatGPT and type: “Explain morality and the thought leaders behind moral reasoning.” The results will […]

Do ice cream sales cause shark attacks? They increase together during the year. The statistical association between them is very clear. Yet the […]

It’s not news to those in library-land that book bans and censorship in higher education have serious implications for the future of […]

When I think about book bans, I consider the subject through a variety of lenses. I have taught English in a post-communist […]

Libraries are considered safe places, secure places to read and meet diverse (but sometimes like-minded) people who celebrate literacy by expanding different […]

More than 200 leading behavioral scientists, policymakers, executives, and members of the media are expected to attend the annual conference of the […]

In today’s digital age, social media platforms often appear to offer a direct line to “what the public thinks.” But what if […]

Join the Campaign for Social Science for the launch of The Contemporary Relevance of the Social Sciences, the latest report from the […]

Thanks to a collaboration between the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), applications are now being accepted for […]

What is the best strategy for finding someone missing in the wilderness? It’s complicated, but the method known as ‘Lost Person Behavior’ seems to offers some hope.

The President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation & Community Engagement Evidence Challenge is dedicated to forming a strategic, evidence-based plan that federal agencies and external researchers can use to solve big problems.

What is a university for? Traditionally, education has long been seen as a foundation for ethical and intellectual life. Aristotle viewed learning […]

Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. […]

On November 4, 2024, the United States of America plunged into an era of unprecedented educational crisis. The ascendant presidency of Donald […]

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover […]

Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. […]

The latest generation of artificial intelligence models is sharper and smoother, producing polished text with fewer errors and hallucinations. As a philosophy […]

Reflecting on my 17 years of tertiary education and 19 years of teaching and learning, university life was mostly supportive and always […]

In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]

Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of […]

In the November edition of The Evidence, Josephine Lethbridge explores an historic shift in global wealth – and its potential to reshape charitable giving.  Over the coming decades, […]

What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what […]

As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […]

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) left a legacy of influence that many more literary writers might envy. In his own lifetime, he was one […]

Sociologist Jason Arday, one of two editors for Sage’s Social Science for Social Justice book series, interviews Harshad Keval about his book […]

It’s hard to be trans in the U.S. right now. I don’t think I need to tell anyone that, but I want […]

What is a university for? Traditionally, education has long been seen as a foundation for ethical and intellectual life. Aristotle viewed learning […]

The latest generation of artificial intelligence models is sharper and smoother, producing polished text with fewer errors and hallucinations. As a philosophy […]

Reflecting on my 17 years of tertiary education and 19 years of teaching and learning, university life was mostly supportive and always […]

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

Sometimes a book jumps off my shelf and comes to life. Visual research is easier said than done. It seems simple, in […]

The word censorship might bring to mind authoritarian regimes, book-banning, and restrictions on a free press, but Cory Clark, a behavioral scientist at […]

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover […]

What is a university for? Traditionally, education has long been seen as a foundation for ethical and intellectual life. Aristotle viewed learning […]

The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]

Who drives digital change – the people of the technology? Katharina Gilli explains how her co-authors worked to address that question.

The negative consequences of relying too heavily on metrics to assess research quality are well known, potentially fostering practices harmful to scientific research such as p-hacking, salami science, or selective reporting. To address this systemic problem, Florian Naudet, and collegues present six principles for assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.

Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed , eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 576 pp. $170.00, […]

One of the big cultural differences between the US and most of Europe is the nature of the legal relationship between parents […]

Political scientist Anna Harvey will leave her role as president of the Social Science Research Council on June 30, the New York […]

Perhaps because college students are generally considered adults, and college and university campuses and classrooms have long been viewed as places to […]

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations recently proposed providing secondary publishing rights to academic authors in Canada.

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have teamed up present a 90-minute online session examining how to balance public access to federally funded research results with an equitable publishing environment.

Five organizations representing knowledge networks, research libraries, and publishing platforms joined the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences to review the present and the future of open access — in policy and in practice – in Canada

At the time of writing, there is a new stand-off between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Trump administration […]

This week Berend van der Kolk published a call to ban university rankings. He concludes: ”So, let’s have (inter)national and/or local discussions […]

Prisons have been in crisis in England and Wales for 200 years. The state has responded with piecemeal, ‘pragmatic’ reforms which have […]

As the U.S. Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a new paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences urges lawmakers to focus on provisions aimed at increasing the numbers of black and Latinx teachers.

To help in decisions surrounding the effects and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences’ offers this collection of articles as a free resource.

Psychologist Susan Fiske was the founding editor of the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. In trying to reach a lay audience with research findings that matter, she counsels stepping a bit outside your academic comfort zone.

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SAGE Publishing — the parent of Social Science Space – will hold its Third Annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp on August 9. Leaning more and register here

On May 13, the American Academy of Political and Social Science hosted an online seminar, co-sponsored by SAGE Publishing, that featured presentations […]

On Friday, April 23rd, join the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers for a virtual congressional briefing. The […]

Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]

What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]

The constitutional processes are now complete and Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services […]

Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. […]

On November 4, 2024, the United States of America plunged into an era of unprecedented educational crisis. The ascendant presidency of Donald […]

When people trust science, they can make better decisions, follow helpful rules and work together on big problems like health, climate change […]

Kaye Husbands Fealing, an economist who has done pioneering work in the “science of broadening participation,” has been named the new leader of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Clinical psychologist Jane M. Simoni has been named to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Annie Pilote, dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies at the Université Laval, was named chair of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at its 2023 virtual annual meeting last month. Members also elected Debra Thompson as a new director on the board.

One researcher studies how war affects children, another took a literal worm’s eye view to examine rural development, while two others scrutinized […]

Do you know a social or behavioral science researcher whose work resonates across disciplines and which has made a significant impact in […]

Four individuals with backgrounds in social and behvioral sciences received John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships for 2025, the foundation […]

“Research impact” means different things to different people. Some refer broadly to how science changes behaviors, beliefs, or practices outside academic institutions. […]

A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic productivity, job stability, and income inequality. It also highlights key research opportunities and data needs to help workers and policymakers adapt to the evolving AI landscape.

To address racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S. criminal justice system, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine just released “Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice and Policy.”

The social and behavioral sciences supply evidence-based research that enables us to make sense of the shifting online landscape pertaining to mental health. We’ll explore three freely accessible articles (listed below) that give us a fuller picture on how TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and online forums affect mental health. 

With research-based evidence increasingly being seen in policy, we should acknowledge that there are risks that the research or ‘evidence’ used isn’t suitable or can be accidentally misused for a variety of reasons. 

Over a 10-year period Carol Tenopir of DataONE and her team conducted a global survey of scientists, managers and government workers involved in broad environmental science activities about their willingness to share data and their opinion of the resources available to do so (Tenopir et al., 2011, 2015, 2018, 2020). Comparing the responses over that time shows a general increase in the willingness to share data (and thus engage in Open Science).

Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup […]

Generative AI, especially large language models (LLMs), present exciting and unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges for academic research and scholarship. As the […]

Graduate students interested in an academic career after graduation day have often been told they need to be open to moving somewhere […]

Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s […]

The team at the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, is celebrating its 12th birthday by launching “A Practical Guide to […]

When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in scientific journals for others to read. This […]

“Research impact” means different things to different people. Some refer broadly to how science changes behaviors, beliefs, or practices outside academic institutions. […]

In the second episode of this four-part series on The Authority File, Tracey Brown, director of Sense about Science, and Camille Gamboa, […]

An examination of the public’s trust in science, and ways to buttress that precious commodity, center a four-part series of podcasts presented […]

In 2011, anti-government protests and uprisings erupted in Northern Africa and the Middle East in what is often called the “Arab Spring.” […]

Dr. Liz Przybylski was thinking ahead when she wrote Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between. They unwittingly predicted that we would […]

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]

What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]

‘Blessed are the cheesemakers’ – but not, it seems, in the US. Some years ago, I was at a conference in Madison, […]

What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what […]

As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […]

Having been raised in Los Angeles, a place with vast swathes of single-family homes connected by freeways, arriving in Costa Rica was […]

In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]

Many people have been there. The dinner party is going well until someone decides to introduce a controversial topic. In today’s world, […]

Definitionally, the word ‘praxis’ involves the exercise of a skill, often in the customary way and usually suggesting a focus on the […]

In the first post from a series of bulletins on public data that social and behavioral scientists might be interested in, Gary Price links to an analysis from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series focuses on promoting your writing after publication. The free webinar is set for November 16 at 4 p.m. BT/11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series honors International Open Access Week (October 24-30). The free webinar is […]

At a time when there are so many concerns being raised about always-on work cultures and our right to disconnect, email is the bane of many of our working lives.

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel, present a new open source platform to support this new form of qualitative research.

The Accelerator For Innovation and Research Funding Experimentation (AFIRE) is a new tool dedicated to boosting and revitalizing the design, synthesis, and implementation of experiments through innovation and research funding.

A new database houses more 250 different useful artificial intelligence applications that can help change the way researchers conduct social science research.

Sociologist Jason Arday, one of two editors for Sage’s Social Science for Social Justice book series, interviews Harshad Keval about his book […]

Definitionally, the word ‘praxis’ involves the exercise of a skill, often in the customary way and usually suggesting a focus on the […]

In his new book, Queering the Asian Diaspora: East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics, the University of Nottingham’s Hongwei […]

Designed for researchers and writers focused on LGBTQIA+ experiences, our expert panelists will share insights, discuss challenges, and explore the importance of […]

The team at the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, is celebrating its 12th birthday by launching “A Practical Guide to […]

This April and May, the Sage Politics Team is hosting a new series of Politics webinars. Similar to last year, these webinars […]