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 […]
What do MPs Think of Randomised Controlled Trials?
A survey of MPs’ attitudes has found unexpected support for using randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to test social policy. It also found […]
Can Transparency Equal Trust in Science’s Crisis of Credibility?
Science is considered a source of truth and the importance of its role in shaping modern society cannot be overstated. But in […]
Cimate Debate About Values, Not Data
To move forward on climate change, argues Andy Hoffman, we have to disengage from fixed battle on one scientific front and seek approaches that engage people who are undecided about climate change on multiple social and cultural fronts.
Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’
The arrival of a report calling for the British government to better support social science has raised questions about the role, responses and responsibilities of a ‘public sociology.’
Social Science in the News
Race to remain important variable in social science research, says Saifuddin – Bernama The Malaysian Insider Race will continue to be an […]
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Consider Research Ethics
Imagine an ethics review system where the researcher’s proposal is read by an ‘ethics jury’ of four to six researchers drawn, as in legal juries, from the academic population at large, suggests Australia’s Gigi Foster.
Picking a Descriptor Also Picks a Gender
A recent data-mapping project reveals that women professors are consistently more likely to be described as feisty, bossy, aggressive, shrill, condescending, rude — and nice.
Social Science in the News
Social science is vital too The Guardian Social Science has to be embedded in any strategy for science and innovation worth […]
