A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Scientists in the UK are facing great uncertainty ahead of the Conservative government’s comprehensive spending review on November 25. Not only is funding for UK research under threat, the government is believed to be planning on culling many of the agencies that fund research in an effort to make savings.
The Federal Register is surely not everybody’s bedtime reading. It is where the US Government formally publishes certain official documents, […]
A massive qualitative research undertaking at the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service engages community researchers, lead researcher Jessica H. Smith discusses the benefits and difficulties of this approach.
Quantitative Skills (QS) can take you far in academia and the research world, giving you the keys to unpick complex phenomena and critically evaluate other studies. These Q&As with established professors, early career researchers and PhD students reveal the importance of QS within their diverse fields.
Last year, SAGE, the National Centre for Social Research and the Oxford Internet Institute set up a network for social […]
This is not a body of work that instructs us what to think – it invites us to ask the question that an ethnographer would ask: confronted with this scene, what is going on here?
Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Steve Duck, Professor of Communication Studies and Daniel and Amy Starch Research Chair, University of Iowa, spoke to socialsciencespace.
How to approach the years beyond the PhD. Some thoughts on alignment, coherence, breadth, and depth.
