Social Science Space

Shamser Sinha draws on his experience in qualitative research as well as playwriting to reflect on how traditional social science research methods can learn from creative fields to better contextualize findings and recognize the humanity behind them.

A 2021 report sponsored by the SRA determined that diversity in the UK’s social research community is poor, but “it also shows that there is a strong appetite for change and that many organizations are starting to take steps in the right direction.”

The recent brouhaha involving the BBC and the singer points out something the journalists and qualitative researchers share: the need to develop a common approach to the ethics of interviewing.

The Federal Register is surely not everybody’s bedtime reading. It is where the US Government formally publishes certain official documents, […]

What does the Facebook emotional contagion study really tells us about research ethics? Perhaps, argues Robert Dingwall, that its time to deregulate public social science.

Robert Dingwall argues that numeracy and and a grasp of quantitative method of course have a place in the education of a social scientist, but they shouldn’t be the only skills in the graduate’s quiver. How about he ability to walk around, for one?

Many social scientists find themselves members of a cult of quantification, argues Robert Dingwall, in love with numbers for their own sake even when those numbers produce no useful knowledge.

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

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

For there to be some sort of global sociology there would need to a recognition of socio-culturally disparate forms of knowledge and institutional settings.

How an unholy alliance of arrogant scientists and self-interested federal bureaucrats came to widen the net of ethical regulation intended to deal with abuses in medical research to empirical investigation in the humanities and social sciences.

As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists Ellen Wartella, a scholar on the role of […]