The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database […]

Sage’s 10-Year Impact Awards recognize academic papers appearing in Sage-published journals that have achieved lasting impact. The winning papers are the most […]

Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named University of Edinburgh politics professor Christina Boswell FBA FAcSS FRSE as the new chair of […]

Daniel Goroff, a mathematician and economist with a long pedigree of policy roles at the intersection of the social sciences and public […]

“Trust but verify” is an old Russian saying that U.S. President Ronald Reagan made famous when discussing treaties to limit nuclear weapons. […]

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

Since artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT was released in 2022, teachers have been looking for ways to tell when AI has been […]

In the second episode of this four-part series on The Authority File, Tracey Brown, director of Sense about Science, and Camille Gamboa, […]

An examination of the public’s trust in science, and ways to buttress that precious commodity, center a four-part series of podcasts presented […]

Sage (the parent of Social Science Space) and Surviving Society’s collaborative podcast series, Social Science for Social Justice, has returned for a […]

In the United Kingdom, thousands of Palestine Action protestors have been arrested and charged with supporting terrorism. After the dreadful 7 October […]

In the November edition of The Evidence, Josephine Lethbridge explores an historic shift in global wealth – and its potential to reshape charitable giving.  Over the coming decades, […]

In a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, the philosopher of tech and critical thinking outlines a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into […]

‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.

Brexit seems likely to extend the hostility of the UK immigration system to scholars from European Union countries — unless a significant change of migration politics and prevalent public attitudes towards immigration politics took place in the UK. There are no indications that the latter will happen anytime soon.

A new report from the Royal Society about the effects on Brexit on science in the United Kingdom has our peripatetic Daniel Nehring mulling the changes that will occur in higher education and academic productivity.

Although many may think of accounting as something abstract that happens only in spreadsheets, a new study shows that accounting can impact […]

Despite decades of reform, gender pay gaps (GPGs) remain a stubborn and unjust feature of labour markets globally. On average, women are […]

In this article, Lorenzo Skade discusses the emotional difficulties encountered by early-career researchers involved in ethnographic studies within the business and society […]

Forty scholars from 22 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs, as well as five practitioners from private industry, make up […]

The New York-based Social Science Research Council has named 14 scholars to its 2026 African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics cohort, supporting work […]

Larissa “Lara” Tiedens, a social psychologist who has twice served as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral […]

The National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics seeks nominations for members of an ad hoc consensus study panel — sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau — to review and evaluate the quality of the 2020 Census.

Could the 2020 iteration of the United States Census, the constitutionally mandated count of everyone present in the nation, be the last of its kind?

Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or […]

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

With threats to research integrity continuing to increase, more and more attention is being paid to “trust markers.” There is currently no […]

A little over 20 years ago, some 8,000 podcasts joined the iTunes platform, according to Beamly. While not all podcasts, that figure […]

You’ve likely heard the hype around artificial intelligence, or AI, but do you find ChatGPT genuinely useful in your professional life? A free course offered by Sage Campus could change all th

As higher education increasingly embeds generative artificial intelligence to help students think critically about information they encounter, how and when to best […]

How is AI changing the shape and space of higher education? Critical thinking continues to rank highly among key skills and attributes […]

The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]

Since artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT was released in 2022, teachers have been looking for ways to tell when AI has been […]

With threats to research integrity continuing to increase, more and more attention is being paid to “trust markers.” There is currently no […]

A photograph of Earth glowing in deep space, the Moon’s cratered horizon stretching across its foreground, caught many people’s eyes in April […]

For two decades, the United Kingdom has experienced weaker trend productivity growth, alongside significant inequalities in income, wealth and opportunity between different […]

The Canadian Science and Innovation Policy Conference is a forum for discussions on science, technology, and innovation policy, bringing together more than […]

Europe’s largest annual gathering of political scientists, with panels and papers across political science subfields. It offers a broad view of comparative […]

Thanks to a collaboration between the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), applications are now being accepted for […]

What is the best strategy for finding someone missing in the wilderness? It’s complicated, but the method known as ‘Lost Person Behavior’ seems to offers some hope.

The President’s Management Agenda Learning Agenda: Public Participation & Community Engagement Evidence Challenge is dedicated to forming a strategic, evidence-based plan that federal agencies and external researchers can use to solve big problems.

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to […]

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or […]

Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic […]

“Trust but verify” is an old Russian saying that U.S. President Ronald Reagan made famous when discussing treaties to limit nuclear weapons. […]

Sage. the parent of Social Science Space, brought academic librarians together at the 2026 American Library Association Annual Conference for a conversation […]

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

Forty scholars from 22 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs, as well as five practitioners from private industry, make up […]

The New York-based Social Science Research Council has named 14 scholars to its 2026 African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics cohort, supporting work […]

Larissa “Lara” Tiedens, a social psychologist who has twice served as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral […]

Christina Bell, reference and instruction librarian at Arizona’s Glendale Community College, examines the less visible forms of censorship and how restrictions on […]

Carrie Hill, digital scholarship librarian at Auburn University Libraries, has seen firsthand how censorship is affecting higher education. In this Quick Insight, […]

Discussions of technology transfer usually center on physical sciences with a focus on products that can be seen or manipulated. Must that […]

The unfolding events of recent years have made one thing clear: we are steadily descending into a tangle of intercon­nected crises. Social […]

“The Great Acceleration” is a concept in the scholarship over climate change that highlights the correlation between extreme human economic activity and […]

A clunky booking website and my failure to check dates before pressing ‘buy’ meant that I saw Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey on […]

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

Belief in ‘markets’ among the financial elite at time can at time border on the theological, with approaches like the efficient market […]

“Once again the season of the anti-sociologists is upon us…[a]curious admixture of illogic and sentiment…makes up the creed and canons of anti-sociology.” […]

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

Sometimes a book jumps off my shelf and comes to life. Visual research is easier said than done. It seems simple, in […]

The word censorship might bring to mind authoritarian regimes, book-banning, and restrictions on a free press, but Cory Clark, a behavioral scientist at […]

Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer […]

Here’s a couple of quick questions for you. What is the smallest of the eight discipline-based directorates at the United States’ National […]

Consider the possibility of another large economic stimulus in the United States being discussed by policy makers circa 2029 to 2032. This […]

Who drives digital change – the people of the technology? Katharina Gilli explains how her co-authors worked to address that question.

The negative consequences of relying too heavily on metrics to assess research quality are well known, potentially fostering practices harmful to scientific research such as p-hacking, salami science, or selective reporting. To address this systemic problem, Florian Naudet, and collegues present six principles for assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.

Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed , eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 576 pp. $170.00, […]

“Trust but verify” is an old Russian saying that U.S. President Ronald Reagan made famous when discussing treaties to limit nuclear weapons. […]

Belief in ‘markets’ among the financial elite at time can at time border on the theological, with approaches like the efficient market […]

“The Great Acceleration” is a concept in the scholarship over climate change that highlights the correlation between extreme human economic activity and […]

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations recently proposed providing secondary publishing rights to academic authors in Canada.

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have teamed up present a 90-minute online session examining how to balance public access to federally funded research results with an equitable publishing environment.

Five organizations representing knowledge networks, research libraries, and publishing platforms joined the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences to review the present and the future of open access — in policy and in practice – in Canada

Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer […]

As the US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon drags on, bringing the world economy to the brink of collapse, U.S. President Donald […]

Since its inception, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made grant payments totaling more than $90 billion. These grants have gone […]

As the U.S. Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a new paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences urges lawmakers to focus on provisions aimed at increasing the numbers of black and Latinx teachers.

To help in decisions surrounding the effects and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences’ offers this collection of articles as a free resource.

Psychologist Susan Fiske was the founding editor of the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. In trying to reach a lay audience with research findings that matter, she counsels stepping a bit outside your academic comfort zone.

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SAGE Publishing — the parent of Social Science Space – will hold its Third Annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp on August 9. Leaning more and register here

On May 13, the American Academy of Political and Social Science hosted an online seminar, co-sponsored by SAGE Publishing, that featured presentations […]

On Friday, April 23rd, join the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers for a virtual congressional briefing. The […]

For years, we’ve been told a familiar story: social scientists such as economists, management scholars, sociologists, talk and the public shrugs. The […]

Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]

What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]

For two decades, the United Kingdom has experienced weaker trend productivity growth, alongside significant inequalities in income, wealth and opportunity between different […]

Belief in ‘markets’ among the financial elite at time can at time border on the theological, with approaches like the efficient market […]

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is clearly proving very hard to control. Much of the difficulty must […]

Forty scholars from 22 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs, as well as five practitioners from private industry, make up […]

The New York-based Social Science Research Council has named 14 scholars to its 2026 African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics cohort, supporting work […]

Larissa “Lara” Tiedens, a social psychologist who has twice served as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral […]

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

Forty scholars from 22 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs, as well as five practitioners from private industry, make up […]

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

“Research impact” means different things to different people. Some refer broadly to how science changes behaviors, beliefs, or practices outside academic institutions. […]

A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic productivity, job stability, and income inequality. It also highlights key research opportunities and data needs to help workers and policymakers adapt to the evolving AI landscape.

To address racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S. criminal justice system, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine just released “Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice and Policy.”

The social and behavioral sciences supply evidence-based research that enables us to make sense of the shifting online landscape pertaining to mental health. We’ll explore three freely accessible articles (listed below) that give us a fuller picture on how TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and online forums affect mental health. 

With research-based evidence increasingly being seen in policy, we should acknowledge that there are risks that the research or ‘evidence’ used isn’t suitable or can be accidentally misused for a variety of reasons. 

Over a 10-year period Carol Tenopir of DataONE and her team conducted a global survey of scientists, managers and government workers involved in broad environmental science activities about their willingness to share data and their opinion of the resources available to do so (Tenopir et al., 2011, 2015, 2018, 2020). Comparing the responses over that time shows a general increase in the willingness to share data (and thus engage in Open Science).

“Trust but verify” is an old Russian saying that U.S. President Ronald Reagan made famous when discussing treaties to limit nuclear weapons. […]

Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer […]

Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the […]

Eighty years ago this month, the United Kingdom pioneered a novel form of social science research, the life-long cohort study. The tool […]

Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s […]

The team at the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, is celebrating its 12th birthday by launching “A Practical Guide to […]

A lot of academic conferences, built around venerable societies and organizations, advertise their legacy by listing iteration number — the 112th or […]

As higher education increasingly embeds generative artificial intelligence to help students think critically about information they encounter, how and when to best […]

A little over 20 years ago, some 8,000 podcasts joined the iTunes platform, according to Beamly. While not all podcasts, that figure […]

In 2011, anti-government protests and uprisings erupted in Northern Africa and the Middle East in what is often called the “Arab Spring.” […]

Dr. Liz Przybylski was thinking ahead when she wrote Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between. They unwittingly predicted that we would […]

Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]

The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing its regular seasonal increase in viral respiratory infections. Traditional schedules have not fully adjusted post-Covid so influenza […]

Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]

What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]

Belief in ‘markets’ among the financial elite at time can at time border on the theological, with approaches like the efficient market […]

Graffiti has a long pedigree, whether our starting point is the wall paintings of Lascaux, the carved crudities of Roman toilets or […]

When discussing youngsters’ life outcomes, school is often the first place someone starts investigating. And yet school time is dwarfed by the […]

Since artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT was released in 2022, teachers have been looking for ways to tell when AI has been […]

In 1990, David McCune and Gracia Alkema launched Corwin Press with the goal of putting educational research and theory into practice for […]

How is AI changing the shape and space of higher education? Critical thinking continues to rank highly among key skills and attributes […]

In the first post from a series of bulletins on public data that social and behavioral scientists might be interested in, Gary Price links to an analysis from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series focuses on promoting your writing after publication. The free webinar is set for November 16 at 4 p.m. BT/11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT.

The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series honors International Open Access Week (October 24-30). The free webinar is […]

At a time when there are so many concerns being raised about always-on work cultures and our right to disconnect, email is the bane of many of our working lives.

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel, present a new open source platform to support this new form of qualitative research.

The Accelerator For Innovation and Research Funding Experimentation (AFIRE) is a new tool dedicated to boosting and revitalizing the design, synthesis, and implementation of experiments through innovation and research funding.

A new database houses more 250 different useful artificial intelligence applications that can help change the way researchers conduct social science research.

A lot of academic conferences, built around venerable societies and organizations, advertise their legacy by listing iteration number — the 112th or […]

As higher education increasingly embeds generative artificial intelligence to help students think critically about information they encounter, how and when to best […]

A little over 20 years ago, some 8,000 podcasts joined the iTunes platform, according to Beamly. While not all podcasts, that figure […]

Sage. the parent of Social Science Space, brought academic librarians together at the 2026 American Library Association Annual Conference for a conversation […]

In 2024, Sage surveyed social and behavioral science (SBS) researchers from 96 countries to better understand their motivation, if any, to conduct […]

Are your students anxious about learning methods? How to teach research methods without resorting to a quant-qual divide? Do your students struggle […]