Social Science Space

The 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award, the nation’s highest honor for early career scientists and engineers bestowed by the U.S. National Science Foundation., was awarded to Daniel Larremore of the University of Colorado. Larremore is is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute.

Vineeta Sinha, a sociologist whose research interests range from religiosity in the Hindu Diaspora and  religion-state encounters to critiques of the social sciences’ infrastructure and rethinking classical sociological theory, will deliver the Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain’s Annual Lecture 2022.

The Campaign for Social Science and SAGE Publishing’s jointly sponsored annual lecture for 2021 featured political economist, author and columnist […]

Speaking before a sell-out audience of policymakers, journalists and academics in Whitehall, Louise Richardson FAcSS, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, said we must bridge the educational divide to prevent populism for threatening democracy

Sense About Science’s Tracey Browne last week delivered ‘The Ugly Truth’ – an examination of “the need to encourage accountability and support scrutiny over research” to an audience of academics, researchers, policymakers and learned societies.

In an attempt to ‘flip the classroom’ the University of Adelaide is phasing out lectures. Will this flip be a flop?

In the case of higher education the discussion of technology’s influence is often superficial, repetitious and disappointing, argues Tom Cochrane of Queensland University of Technology. It’s too often context free, and about being a university student and/or academic.