Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Janet Yellen: The Social Scientist in Charge at Treasury
Janet Yellen, appointed as the 78th secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in January, has a long history of work in and alongside the social sciences above and beyond her role as an academic economist and policy maker
Asking Questions, Analyzing Outcomes: Alondra Nelson and the Betterment of Society
A look at the career of Alonda Nelson, who is now essentially the national adviser for social and behavioral sciences in the United States.
The Trailblazing Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander
“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them […]
Controlling the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Behavior
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary devastation, claiming millions of lives and disrupting the economy and daily life across the globe. From […]
New Year Honours List 2021 Celebrates Many in Social Science
The New Year Honours, a set of awards that is part of the British honors system and presented by the reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II, recognizes the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.
To Share Research More Widely, Knock Down University Barriers
Sharing our findings beyond academia isn’t typically seen as part of our academic workload. This is problematic for academics who are already struggling to find time to do all the things their complex workload requires of them
Why Does Social Science Not Bite?
David Canter considers why the social sciences failed to influence behavior in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. The virologists had been preparing for a new virus for some years, so were already ahead of the game when they had to start creating a new vaccine. What preparations had social psychologists, sociologists or anthropologists for the inevitable emergence of a new pandemic?
What I Have Learned from Social Science
Ziyad Marar, Sage’s president of global publishing, reflects on how his career and his studies of psychology, linguistics and philosophy leave him thinking a social science imagination benefits us as individuals and improves society more generally, especially in times of upheaval and reconfiguration.
