Social Science Space

For the fourth straight year, federal funding for research and development at institutions of higher education decreased in absolute terms, according to a new brief on the 2015 fiscal year the National Science Foundation released last week. Despite that overall fall, research and development funding for psychology and for fields identified as social science increased from 2014 to 2015.

We often use the metaphor of a war to describe the human struggle against disease. This is a very unhelpful way of thinking, because it generates the sort of hubris exemplified by the Chan Zuckerberg program.

Back in the summer, John Holmwood, the current BSA President, sent me an email about impact and research ethics. Various […]

Congress just cut funding for political science because they don’t understand the good it does. Here are four excellent examples.

On social science, the sequester, and the need for a Human Rights Culture.

Older readers may recall a series of advertisements on UK TV in the 1980s, featuring the Man from Del Monte. […]

It is curious that the UK government department promoting Business, Innovation and Skills should be so committed to a policy that might almost be designed to achieve the opposite effect.

Across the world in the media, in policy, government discussions, and in our daily lives, there is evidence of social science at work. Whether it’s analysis of a cultural phenomenon like crime, or a major international concern such how climate change leads to changing lifestyles or inequality, social scientists help us understand cultures and behaviours.

Re-posted from the Campaign for the Social Sciences The social sciences are vital in understanding the social world but unlike […]

There has been a good deal of debate across the web this week following the publication of a report by […]

A column by Tom Sutcliffe in today’s Independent addresses the question of academic freedom posed by reports that the Arts […]

I know the season for frivolous quiz games has passed but do you know who is buried in Westminster Abbey?  […]