
Why Social Science? Because Vaccination is a Human—Not Technical—Process
Leveraging the sociocultural dimensions of health knowledge, not a technical focus, is what will move the needle on vaccine uptake.
7 months agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Leveraging the sociocultural dimensions of health knowledge, not a technical focus, is what will move the needle on vaccine uptake.
7 months agoThese are extraordinary times, and not just because we are coming through the greatest national trauma since the Second World […]
1 year agoDavid Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.
1 year agoOur work in recent years has focused on how to prevent people from falling for misinformation in the first place, building on a framework from social psychology known as inoculation theory.
1 year agoThe reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality […]
1 year agoThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary devastation, claiming millions of lives and disrupting the economy and daily life across the […]
1 year agoDavid Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.
1 year agoIt is possible that we could abolish death by COVID, argues Robert Dingwall, by continuing the restrictions of 2020 indefinitely – the problem, of course, is that we would simply die from something else.
1 year agoDavid Canter considers why the social sciences failed to influence behavior in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. The virologists had been preparing for a new virus for some years, so were already ahead of the game when they had to start creating a new vaccine. What preparations had social psychologists, sociologists or anthropologists for the inevitable emergence of a new pandemic?
1 year agoAs the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic increased, polling suggests counter-intuitively that resistance to a future vaccine has also risen. Anthropologist Heidi J. Larson identified several likely drivers of this, including scientists themselves.
2 years agoFiguring out how public health professionals can most effectively combat misinformation about the flu vaccine is a critically important question for public health research. Looking at the latest research, what is the best way to communicate this importance.
3 years ago