Research, and especially qualitative research, is fairly new to fire and rescue services. Historically, quantitative analysis has been prioritised, however qualitative research can help understand why fires occur, and social services are finally starting to notice.
With the exponential expansion even over the last few months of Web 2.0 it is important for social scientists to get a grip on the wide-reaching implications of these developments.
With larger data sets offering researchers the potential to look at more subtle interactions, big data is becoming increasingly valuable to social sciences, yet challenges remain.
New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.
This week is the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, an event that takes place all over the UK where social scientists get […]
Jorja Leap immersed herself in the culture of Los Angeles’ notorious street gangs for over 10 years, interviewing and working with hundreds of active and former gang members.
With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the great recession is accelerating the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has been decimating the economic well-being of all Americans for almost a generation.
Meta-analysis has emerged as an important means of gathering cumulative scientific data, but if the results are skewed, it can hinder rather […]
Michael Burawoy, whose embrace of public sociology and the public at work lead him to describe his influential academic niche as “industrial […]
To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.
Drawing on discussions with academics who have oriented their work around public engagement and social impact, Daniel Pearson suggests these academics present an opportunity to rethink the existing structures of reward and recognition in higher education.
A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of ‘internet famous’ celebrities. And that new people has a class of […]
Xenotransplantation is a fascinating subject – for obvious reasons, as it involves transplanting organs or other body parts across species boundaries (in […]
Decisions taken now around how generative AI is used by academics and universities will shape the future of research. Mark Carrigan argues whilst optimistic scenarios are possible, generative AI stands ready to feed into an existing productivity oriented framing of academic work.
