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 […]
Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.
Re-establishing economics as a realist and relevant social science, the use of social science in court, and more in this weekly overview of Social Science News
Can ‘Neds’ or ‘Chavs’ be non-delinquent, educated or even middle class?: Examining the cultural stereotypes From Sociology The heightened risk of immigrants developing schizophrenia […]
Happy New year! Time to set your new year resolutions. the American Psychoplogical Association website has a section on will power and […]
Thinking is hard, and most of the time we rely on simple psychological mechanisms that can lead us astray. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast, the Nobel-prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, talks to Nigel Warburton about biases in our reasoning.
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.
A two-day conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences looked at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK.
Toby Miller, author and editor of over 30 books on interdisciplinary topics within the Social Sciences, discusses Cultural Studies in relation to his work on the Hollywood film industry and addresses wider questions about objectivity and bias.