Social Science Space

I was rather saddened last week by the comment from a Pakistani colleague who wanted to know how to set […]

‘Academically Adrift’, a new book on the failures of higher education, finds that undergraduates don’t study, and professors don’t make […]

UK Government and research funding agencies are pursuing a strategy of focusing and concentrating the funding of social science research […]

Perri 6, Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, has produced a detailed analysis of the implications of concentrating […]

“Strengthening Your Literature Review”, by Rebecca Reuber of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was the most frequently read article […]

Does the Tiger Mother get it right? While some view Asian-Americans as pushy, stressing their children into exceptional achievement, research […]

Interview with Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Science & Policy. Kelvin Hopkins is MP for Luton North and […]

It is not often, as a middle aged academic, that I get to feel like James Bond – but there is […]

It is important that government policy is supported by the best evidence possible, and this is as true in the […]

Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and […]

When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend […]

A debate held in London on 16th March 2010 as part of the ESRC festival of social science. Co-hosted by […]