A 2024 report by the National Academies explores the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology and their potential effects on economic productivity, job stability, and income inequality. It also highlights key research opportunities and data needs to help workers and policymakers adapt to the evolving AI landscape.
In November, Sage and the Academy of Social Sciences hosted the 2024 Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture. This year’s talk, […]
The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel, present a new open source platform to support this new form of qualitative research.
Even in the 21st century, social class is a part of being British. We talk of living in a post-class era but, […]
Qualitative data analysis is a way of creating insight and empathy. Strategies for data analysis and interpretation are tools for meaning-making and […]
Sometimes a book jumps off my shelf and comes to life. Visual research is easier said than done. It seems simple, in […]
The Accelerator For Innovation and Research Funding Experimentation (AFIRE) is a new tool dedicated to boosting and revitalizing the design, synthesis, and implementation of experiments through innovation and research funding.
Learn from and engage with experienced librarians, behavioral scientists, and others at Sage’s fifth annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp, which is taking place on Tuesday, August 6
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.
