Social Science Space

“In times of crisis, the humanities and social sciences inform and guide our response — raising awareness of the issues, analyzing options and helping shape public policy,” according to a new report by Canada’s Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 

For the first time, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – Canada’s largest industry event and one of […]

The Network for Advancing and Evaluating Societal Impact of Science, or AESIS, will hold the next edition of its Impact […]

The Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) community experts around the world will lead continuing discussions on broader impact topics. […]

There is still a gender pay gap at nearly all Canadian universities, with especially big gaps at Canada’s 15 research-intensive universities, Megan Frederickson shows. It’s not accounted for by greater talent or solely the ghost of sexism past.

The former president of the University of Saskatchewan argues that freedom of expression is under attack in Canada’s universities through an accumulation of episodes that diminish its significance and through a vector of intellectual laziness accompanied by ideology and anger.

It is time, argues Andrew Craig, for the Canadian government to demonstrate they are moving ahead with all recommendations from the Naylor report — Canada’s Fundamental science review — to return balance and support Canadian science in all its wonderful diversity.

Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council awarded ethnomusicologist Beverly Diamond its top prize for scholarship and impact .

Canada’s premiere government-sponsored awards for outstanding work in HSS fields will be announced in Ottawa next week.

Social Science Space reported last week how–according to one survey drawn from the STEM fields–Canadian researchers like the principle of […]

Although four out of five Canadian researchers surveyed say they like the idea of open access, the cost of serving that principle turns many of them off.

Canadian scientists are being prevented by the state from discussing research findings in public, even about earthquakes in their backyard. Mark Frary reports