Social Science Research

Hype Terms In Research: Words Exaggerating Results Undermine Findings
Research Ethics
June 23, 2023

Hype Terms In Research: Words Exaggerating Results Undermine Findings

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Aspect Annual Webinar Event 2020: Building Propensity & Well-Being Through Social Science Innovation
Innovation
August 27, 2020

Aspect Annual Webinar Event 2020: Building Propensity & Well-Being Through Social Science Innovation

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Analysis: Indonesia Needs Quality Research to Inform Policy-Making
Impact
November 12, 2019

Analysis: Indonesia Needs Quality Research to Inform Policy-Making

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The Changing Imperative to Demonstrate Social Science Impact
Impact
May 29, 2019

The Changing Imperative to Demonstrate Social Science Impact

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Common Rule Revision – The Ethics Police Fight Back

Common Rule Revision – The Ethics Police Fight Back

Revisions to the U.S. government’s regulations on ethical treatment of human research subjects that would exempt some experiments from direct oversight by institutional review boards are facing pushback from paternalistic guardians, says our Robert Dingwall, who don’t seem to believe subjects are competent to make decisions on their own.

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Deregulating Social Science Research Ethics – Clipping the Wings of IRBs?

Deregulating Social Science Research Ethics – Clipping the Wings of IRBs?

The Federal Register is surely not everybody’s bedtime reading. It is where the US Government formally publishes certain official documents, including advance […]

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Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’

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.’

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On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

What does the Facebook emotional contagion study really tells us about research ethics? Perhaps, argues Robert Dingwall, that its time to deregulate public social science.

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Return to Planet Quantophrenia

Return to Planet Quantophrenia

Robert Dingwall argues that numeracy and and a grasp of quantitative method of course have a place in the education of a social scientist, but they shouldn’t be the only skills in the graduate’s quiver. How about he ability to walk around, for one?

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Quantophrenia is Back in Town

Quantophrenia is Back in Town

Many social scientists find themselves members of a cult of quantification, argues Robert Dingwall, in love with numbers for their own sake even when those numbers produce no useful knowledge.

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The Ethics of Impact

The Ethics of Impact

Back in the summer, John Holmwood, the current BSA President, sent me an email about impact and research ethics. Various contingencies have […]

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Why Social Science Education is as Important as STEM…

Why Social Science Education is as Important as STEM…

A recent Ipsos-Mori survey reveals the crucial role that social science has to play in modern democracy, a role which is frequently sabotaged.

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