Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Do Asian-American parents push their kids?
Does the Tiger Mother get it right? While some view Asian-Americans as pushy, stressing their children into exceptional achievement, research doesn’t bear […]
Ideas and analysis – what politicians want from social scientists
Interview with Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Science & Policy. Kelvin Hopkins is MP for Luton North and Chair of […]
Research Ethics and James Bond
It is not often, as a middle aged academic, that I get to feel like James Bond – but there is something about […]
Interview with Richard Bartholomew – Joint head of the Government Social Research Service
It is important that government policy is supported by the best evidence possible, and this is as true in the area of […]
Making the Case For the Social Sciences no.1: Wellbeing
Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research […]
Ethics of research with young children
When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend to – […]
SAGE and the British Academy: the Crucial Role of Social Science
A debate held in London on 16th March 2010 as part of the ESRC festival of social science. Co-hosted by SAGE and […]
(Maintaining quality in) social research in straitened times
Patrick Sturgis, University of Southampton, National Centre for Research Methods speaking at the SRA Summer Event in July SRAsummerevent Patrick Sturgiss (ps1r07 […]
