Archives for March, 2017

Health of People: Prevention and Behavior Change
Public Policy
March 31, 2017

Health of People: Prevention and Behavior Change

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Academy of Social Sciences Confers Fellowships on 47
Career
March 31, 2017

Academy of Social Sciences Confers Fellowships on 47

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Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper
Career
March 30, 2017

Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper

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Making Sense of Society: Elo Luik
Career
March 29, 2017

Making Sense of Society: Elo Luik

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Social Science and Health Service Delivery

Social Science and Health Service Delivery

A pending report from the Campaign for Social Science, titled, “The Health of People,” will make the case about the importance of social and behavioral science to health policy and practice in Britain. A video from the report’s contributors teases some of the arguments that will be made.

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Making Sense of Society: Max Gallien

Making Sense of Society: Max Gallien

In the third of a series of essays from ESRC-funded researchers, a young academic explains why studying ‘informal cross-border trade’ is important to understanding society itself today.

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Archived Webinar: Marijuana on the Mind – A Primer for Policymakers

Archived Webinar: Marijuana on the Mind – A Primer for Policymakers

‘Policy has clearly outpaced science’ in the United States on the issue of legalizing marijuana for either medical or recreational use, say two researchers from Harvard University and McLean Hospital

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Making Sense of Society: Lauren White

Making Sense of Society: Lauren White

In the second of a series of essays from ESRC-funded researchers, a young academic describes her examinations of how places such as toilets can be reflective of our practices of privacy and containment of our bodily excretions.

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Making Sense of Society: Wilhelmiina Toivo

Making Sense of Society: Wilhelmiina Toivo

Social Science Space will publish the winning essays, runners-up and eight shortlisted pieces from the most recent ESRC writing competition in the next few weeks, starting with “Once more, with feeling: life as bilingual,” an essay from psychologist Wilhelmiina Toivo at the University of Glasgow.

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‘Ethics Dumping’ and Research on Vulnerable Communities

‘Ethics Dumping’ and Research on Vulnerable Communities

When researchers from countries where regulation is well developed choose to conduct ethically dubious research in countries where regulation is not as strict, it is known as “ethics dumping.” When it happened to Africa’s San people, they responded.

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Three Views on Addressing the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’

Three Views on Addressing the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’

A survey by Nature found that 52 percent of researchers believed there was a ‘significant reproducibility crisis’ and 38 percent said there was a ‘slight crisis.’ Here, three experts give their views on the issue.

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Not What It Used to Be: Academic Capitalism and Sociological Futures in the UK

Not What It Used to Be: Academic Capitalism and Sociological Futures in the UK

Sociology today, argues our Daniek Nehring, is defined by a fundamental contradiction between its everyday labor practices and its imaginary ethos.

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