Author: Social Science Space

Applicant Window Closing for New Head of ESRC
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April 3, 2014

Applicant Window Closing for New Head of ESRC

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A Sweet (Potato) Winner for Social Science
Recognition
April 2, 2014

A Sweet (Potato) Winner for Social Science

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Call for Papers: Diverse Regions: Building Resilient Communities & Territories
Announcements
April 1, 2014

Call for Papers: Diverse Regions: Building Resilient Communities & Territories

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Duckie Blog Awards: Unrest, Violence and Nukes, Oh My!
Recognition
April 1, 2014

Duckie Blog Awards: Unrest, Violence and Nukes, Oh My!

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King and Crewe’s Book of ‘Blunders’ a Paddy Prize Winner

King and Crewe’s Book of ‘Blunders’ a Paddy Prize Winner

‘The Blunders of Our Governments,’ co-authored by the president of the Academy of Social Sciences, Ivor Crewe, and fellow political scientist Anthony King, has been named the Practical Politics Book of the Year in Britain’s annual Paddy Power Political Book Awards.

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Katznelson’s New Deal History Wins Bancroft Prize

Katznelson’s New Deal History Wins Bancroft Prize

Ira Katznelson’s examination of the racial politics surrounding the passage of much of the Depression era New Deal, has received a Bancroft […]

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Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon

Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon

Christine Drennon, a Texas geographer whose youth and professional life have given her a front-row seat to see how access and equality play out in American cities, has received the annual Urban Affairs Association award for a scholar/activist.

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Pluralism’s Ringmaster: Robert Dahl, 1915-2014

Pluralism’s Ringmaster: Robert Dahl, 1915-2014

Robert Dahl, one of the founders of American political science and the theorist of pluralism, has died at age 98.

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A Perceptive Outsider Always Looking In: Stuart Hall, 1932-2014

A Perceptive Outsider Always Looking In: Stuart Hall, 1932-2014

The permanent outsider who helped pry open Britain’s eyes to the field of cultural studies has died at age 82.

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140 Thoughtless Characters Cost Dear in Academia

140 Thoughtless Characters Cost Dear in Academia

The censuring of an academic in the US for sending out an offensive tweet has led many university tweeters to pause for thought.

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Oh the humanities: Oxford graduates do well, but what about the rest?

Oh the humanities: Oxford graduates do well, but what about the rest?

A study of 11,000 alumni from the University of Oxford has shown that humanities graduates went on to work in the UK’s major growth sectors. The Oxford study can’t tell us much about the fate of graduates at other universities around the UK. But it does prompt a closer look at the stigma surrounding humanities subjects in the UK.

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The Psychology of the “Psychology Isn’t a Science” Argument

The Psychology of the “Psychology Isn’t a Science” Argument

Every so often the internet is set ablaze with opinion pieces on a familiar question: Are “soft” sciences, like psychology, actually science?

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