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 […]
SAGE opposes the Flake Amendment
Recently, the US House of Representatives passed off an amendment offered by Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would prohibit funding for the Political Science Program with the National Science Foundation. If enacted into law, this amendment would set an extraordinary and disturbing precedent in which Congress chooses which scientific disciplines should be funded and not funded within the NSF’s research portfolio.
A Response to Recent Attacks on Social Science
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.
We’re live! Social Science Bites Podcasts
Social Science Bites is a series of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. The series is produced and presented by well known authors Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds…
Social scientists’ role in strengthening trust in scientific evidence
Originally posted to the SAGE Connection blog Last week was the ESRC’s annual festival of social science. This is the third year […]
New Book Explores the Making of a Humanitarian Leader
How do seemingly ordinary people become the kind of leaders who have a meaningful and often lasting impact on the lives of […]
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 […]
