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Videos and Past Webinars

This page collects videos – recorded lectures, archived webinars, interviews and more – from across the social and behavioral sciences.

Translating Research to Policy: Improving Justice for Women and Girls

Translating Research to Policy: Improving Justice for Women and Girls

A number of scholars drawn from American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime presented their evidence-based suggestions for the improvement of existing policies and legislation, as well as new legislative and funding initiatives, at the division’s first-ever congressional briefing in Washington, D.C.

APS Panel: Connecting Behavioral Scientists and Tech

APS Panel: Connecting Behavioral Scientists and Tech

What exactly does the tech industry want from social and behavioral scientists? That was the focus of a SAGE Publishing-sponsored panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science In San Francisco this summer. Panelists were four representatives from tech, ranging from big players like Google to startups like Jaunt.

Communicating NSF’s Value to Elected Officials

Communicating NSF’s Value to Elected Officials

The Coalition for National Science Funding hosted a webinar titled “Communicating the Value of NSF to Elected Officials”; Focusing on the need to engage with elected officials while they’re at home in their district. An issue of importance as US Government continues to go back and forth on its funding for the next fiscal year.

Video: Evidence-Based Policy in the Trump Era

Video: Evidence-Based Policy in the Trump Era

New Video highlighting the July 19th session held at the Brookings Institution on the new 2018 volume of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Featuring Sen. Todd Young (R) & Sen. Tom Carper (D), assessing how ‘evidence in public policy is faring, currently, in the Trump administration.

Archived Webinar: Tom Chatfield and Mark Kingwell Discuss Critical Thinking

Archived Webinar: Tom Chatfield and Mark Kingwell Discuss Critical Thinking

Tom Chatfield, author of the new SAGE Publishing book Critical Thinking, and Mark Kingwell, the University of Toronto, held a lively conversation on the import of technology on how we think and act ‘critically.’ Chatfield, described as a ‘tech philosopher,’ and Kingwell, a more traditional professor of philosophy, traded perspectives, insights into the digital, and purportedly post-truth, era in this one-hour webinar.

Ziyad Marar: Building Bridges Between Big Data and Social Research

Ziyad Marar: Building Bridges Between Big Data and Social Research

In a keynote address delivered to the London Info International conference, Ziyad Marar, president of global publishing for SAGE Publishing, outlines the intersection between big data and social science research. He notes that social and behavioral researchers have seen some opportunities as beyond their grasp, and that SAGE is working to bridge that gap.

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Economic Peaks, Troughs and This Year’s Nobelists in Economics

Economic Peaks, Troughs and This Year’s Nobelists in Economics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to the American economists Robert E. Hall […]

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Four From Social Science World Receive 2026 MacArthur Fellowships

Four From Social Science World Receive 2026 MacArthur Fellowships

Four Americans working in the social and behavioral sciences are among the 20 people named MacArthur Fellows this year. Recipients may be […]

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Quick Insight: Euan Adie on Getting Academics Credit for Their Impact 

Quick Insight: Euan Adie on Getting Academics Credit for Their Impact 

Euan Adie, the founder of Altmetric and later of Overton, discusses the reasons the led to Overton’s focus on showing researchers how […]

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IT Giants and Their Operations: Should We Be Concerned? 

IT Giants and Their Operations: Should We Be Concerned? 

The following is an adapted extract from The Cultural Industries, fifth edition, by David Hesmondhalgh.  The increasing presence of information technology (IT) […]

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What We Miss When We Study Public Trust with Surveys Alone

What We Miss When We Study Public Trust with Surveys Alone

Developers of AI data centers have a public trust problem. According to multiple surveys, a majority of Americans say they would oppose […]

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AI and ‘Iatrocracy’ – A Cautionary Tale

AI and ‘Iatrocracy’ – A Cautionary Tale

I was adding some final flourishes on the topic of ‘iatrocracy’ to my forthcoming book with Natewindé Sawadogo – Sickness and Social […]

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