Archives for 2020

Live Blogging Virtual Conference on Social Science’s Societal Impact
Impact
October 15, 2020

Live Blogging Virtual Conference on Social Science’s Societal Impact

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Auction Theorists Win 2020 Economics Nobel
Impact
October 13, 2020

Auction Theorists Win 2020 Economics Nobel

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Universities Have Invested in Online Learning, Providing Students with Value for Money
Higher Education Reform
October 13, 2020

Universities Have Invested in Online Learning, Providing Students with Value for Money

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2020 MacArthur Fellows’ Studies Touch on Race, Gender, Inequality, and Statistical Inference
Recognition
October 12, 2020

2020 MacArthur Fellows’ Studies Touch on Race, Gender, Inequality, and Statistical Inference

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8 Ways Universities Can Improve Online Learning During COVID-19

8 Ways Universities Can Improve Online Learning During COVID-19

This summer, universities around the world planned for an unprecedented back-to-school in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In most universities, centers of […]

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Stale to Stellar: The Truth Behind Creating an Engaging Webinar

Stale to Stellar: The Truth Behind Creating an Engaging Webinar

What makes a webinar presentation feel stale? You probably know ’em when you experience ’em. But how do you escape that trap in your own presentation, Echo Rivera is here to help …

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The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

Robert Dingwall cites a short story from 1957 which highlights why the development of a vaccine needs to always keep an eye on its safety, no matter what the pressures are for its immediate release.

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A New, Technological ‘Normal’ in the Wake of COVID-19 and Online University

A New, Technological ‘Normal’ in the Wake of COVID-19 and Online University

COVID-19 continues to shape the structure and direction of universities, but can this reframing offer a valid experience for their students and prove that the university experience today is still worthwhile? What can students, faculty, staff and university systems do online now that will ultimately benefit and expand upon what they do on campus later?

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SAGE Campus Expands to Online Learning for Skills and Research Methods 

SAGE Campus Expands to Online Learning for Skills and Research Methods 

SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is expanding its SAGE Campus product from its original focus on online data science courses to now offer high […]

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Panel: How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19?

Panel: How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19?

This panel, “How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19,” organized by the Campaign for Social Science and SAGE Publishing and held on September 21, featured three speakers giving their perspectives on the role of timely, appropriately representative, and reliable social statistics in informing the COVID-19 response and recovery planning.

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Take Our Survey on Anti-Racist Research in the Social Sciences

Take Our Survey on Anti-Racist Research in the Social Sciences

This year has exposed a lot of glaring flaws in how modern society functions, not least of which its relationship with race […]

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Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?

Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?

or 30 years, social scientists have been trying to educate scientific elites in the value of taking ordinary people with them rather than dismissing skepticism about science-based actions. This work has just gone out the window, argues Robert Dingwall.

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